It could cost up to $37 billion to acquire the pair of plutonium pit production facilities needed to produce new nuclear weapon cores for the rest of this century, the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration said at a conference last week. The range, provided by Administrator Jill Hruby at the annual Strategic Weapons in the 21st Century Symposium, is $28 billion to $37 billion, according to Hruby’s prepared remarks. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Los Alamos National…
