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Nuclear Modernization

STRATCOM Commander Says NNSA Must Resolve Pit Problems By Year’s End

Wednesday, August 1st, 2018

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STRATCOM Commander Says NNSA Must Resolve Pit Problems By Year’s End

Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command. Photo: Dan Leone.

OMAHA, Neb. — The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) may not be able to produce 80 nuclear-warhead cores a year by 2030 unless by the end of this year it solves some of the issues preventing it from converting an unfinished plutonium disposal plant in South Carolina into a weapons facility, the commander of U.S. nuclear forces said here Wednesday.The semiautonomous Department of Energy agency wants to cancel the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF) under construction at the Savannah…

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