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Nuke Weapons Council Chief Wants Plutonium Factory Buildup in S.C. by Mid-2019

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Nuke Weapons Council Chief Wants Plutonium Factory Buildup in S.C. by Mid-2019
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The Department of Energy will not be able to deliver 80 new nuclear warhead cores a year in 2030 unless the civilian agency starts building new plutonium processing facilities in South Carolina by the middle of 2019, the head of the Nuclear Weapons Council said Thursday.“From the Nuclear Weapons Council perspective, the Department of Energy (DoE) needs to start building up a plutonium processing capacity in South Carolina by early to mid-2019 to meet the requirement to produce at least…

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