Biden Energy Chief Backs Trump-Era Nuclear Bomb Production Goal

摘要

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Thursday she supports an annual goal of producing 80 plutonium “pits” used as triggers in nuclear bombs at two-sites in South Carolina andNew Mexico that was put in motion by the Trump administration.1. NOTE: Granholm was responding to a question from Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Calif., during a House House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the agency’s budget request2. NOTE: While restarting production of nuclear weapons triggers was backed by Obama, the Trump administration proposed increasing funding for the effort by 72% over existing levelsand repurposing a facility at the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site, in Aiken County, South Carolina3. NOTE: Trump Plan to Build Nuclear Bombs Divides a Scarred Factory Town.