Plutonium pit production up slightly after shifting funds, appropriations bill report shows

Complex-wide plutonium modernization is up slightly, with Los Alamos plutonium funding shifting to operations from modernization, in the House’s first draft of the Department of Energy’s 2025 budget.
The full House Appropriations Committee was to debate and…

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