Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

LANL’s Weapons Engineering Tritium Facility “Ready to Safely Operate”

By Photo of Brian

Alissa Tabirian
NS&D Monitor
9/4/2015
A team of contractor personnel determined early last month that the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) Weapons Engineering Tritium Facility (WETF) is “ready to safely operate,” according to a Defense…

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