Senators Probe Acting NNSA Chief About Livermore Pits, Foreign Uranium

摘要

In a budget hearing that was mostly a best-of, a couple senators asked the acting head of theNational Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) about alternative means of meeting themission objectives of the day, including by producing pits at the Lawrence Livermore NationalLaboratory or buying, instead of enriching, uranium needed to produce weapons-tritium in the2040s.