Plutonium Pit Production

DOE Still Expects to Meet Savannah River Plutonium Removal Deadline

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The Department of Energy remains on track to remove a remaining half-metric of plutonium from the Savannah River Site and the state of South Carolina by the end of the year as ordered in a federal lawsuit from 2016, according to a recent status report.
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