Stockpile Stewardship

NNSA Nevada upgrades won’t be available for plutonium tests until 2030

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Materials shortages, technology changes and other factors have pushed major enhancements to a nuclear-weapon testing facility in Nevada back three years and inflated the overall project cost to $1.8 billion, according to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s…

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