
On top of the $6.5 billion required to build the Uranium Processing Facility in 2026, the National Nuclear Security Administration will have to spend nearly $1 billion by that year to modernize other facilities needed to support the next generation weapons-uranium hub, the Government Accountability Office reported. That is according to an integrated master schedule for the Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) that the agency developed in December, the Government Accountability Office wrote last week in a report, “Uranium Processing Facility…