October 06, 2017

SRS Plans to Ramp Up Plutonium Downblending

By Staff Reports
The Energy Department’s Savannah River Site downblended 16 kilograms of nuclear weapon-usable plutonium in fiscal 2017, and is expected to nearly double amount in the current budget year. Officials from the South Carolina facility reported the figure last…

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