The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) budget request for fiscal year 2024 includes a funding boost for plutonium pit production in New Mexico, with the goal of building 80 per year as close to 2030 as possible. Also in the request, the NNSA provided a new cost and schedule estimate for completing the Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn. After acknowledging in May that the project slipped off the rails, NNSA said…
