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Possible To Get 30 Pits at Los Alamos Before 2030, Lab Director Says

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023

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Possible To Get 30 Pits at Los Alamos Before 2030, Lab Director Says

The Los Alamos National Laboratory might still be able to make 30 nuclear-weapon cores before 2030, even though the equipment needed to do it is not supposed to be ready until then, the lab’s director said Tuesday. In January, the lab’s owner, the Department of Energy, approved a formal cost and schedule estimate that had the lab’s Los Alamos Plutonium Pit Production Project 30 Base Equipment Installation subproject wrapping up in August 2030. The project will install “the minimum equipment…

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Congress

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