Los Alamos Eyes 2020 Firing Day for First Nightshade Subcritical Test

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico still plans this year to begin the next round of subcritical plutonium experiments, a series dubbed Nightshade.
“In order to accommodate ongoing experiment preparation, facility work,…

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