Plutonium Pit Production

NNSA Backs Off Drive to Speed Up Pit Production at Los Alamos

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The National Nuclear Security Administration last spring quietly backed off a drive to produce 30 plutonium nuclear-warhead cores per year at the Los Alamos National Laboratory earlier than the long-established target of 2026, a recently published contract modification…

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