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EnergySec: Los Alamos “actually manufacturing pits,” goal of 100 in admin, 80 per year by 2030

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright confirmed Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has “just begun” pit production in testimony Wednesday to the House Appropriations Energy and Water subcommittee on…
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Wright: DOE got responses from 28 states for nuclear hubs
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Wright says Hanford budget haircut won’t slow ongoing glass making
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IAEA confirms North Korea is expanding nuclear complex
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Post-outage, WIPP receives 25 shipments in March
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EIA sees slow growth for nuclear by 2050 barring new tech
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Republican senators push for expanded DOE role in nuclear deployment
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