
The Savannah River Site in February completed upgrades to tritium processing facilities at the site’s H-Area that will allow personnel to fill tritium reservoirs for the planned B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb life-extension program, the site said Tuesday. The upgrades doubled the capacity of one of the site’s tritium lines capacity, according to a press release, and involved “removing dozens of valves, reducing gas flow restrictions and the time required to remove extraneous gas during the loading process.” The planned B61-12…