Acting DOE Nuke Boss Won’t Play Down Pit Costs in Armed Services Hearing

摘要

The acting head of DOE nuclear weapons programs on Thursday passed on a chance to say that a planned plutonium pit factory in South Carolina will cost as much per unit as a cheaper pit factory planned for New Mexico. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) plans a larger pit factory, the Savannah River Plutonium Production Facility (SRPPF), at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., and a smaller pit factory, the Los Alamos Plutonium Pit Production Plant, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.