Weapons Complex Monitor Vol. 27 No. 14
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April 01, 2016

With Little Fanfare, Six Tons of Plutonium Officially Headed to WIPP

By Dan Leone
The Energy Department’s decision to officially ship 6 metric tons of diluted weapon-grade plutonium to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M., ultimately registered as a pot-sweetener this week as flashier nonproliferation news stole the…

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