Plutonium Pit Production

COVID-19 created more than a year’s worth of delays for pit production at Los Alamos, lab said

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Due primarily to COVID-19, Los Alamos National  Laboratory believed it could take a year longer than expected for the the lab to casting 10 plutonium pits annually in New Mexico, according to an internal document.
A redacted copy of the Los Alamos-authored document,…

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