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Savannah River Pit Plant Design to be Finished by End of June

Wednesday, February 12th, 2020

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Savannah River Pit Plant Design to be Finished by End of June

The Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility under construction. The site could become a new hub for producing nuclear cores for ICBM warheads. Source: McDermott International

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Department of Energy contractor in charge of the Savannah River Site plans to finalize by June the design for a new pit plant capable of making 50 nuclear warhead cores a year at the Aiken, S.C. site, the company's president said here Wednesday. The conceptual design report for the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility (SRPPF), the pit plant to be built by re-purposing the cancelled Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, should be finished by June 30,…

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