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DoE Backs Off Drive To Speed Up Pit Production At Los Alamos

Monday, February 3rd, 2020

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DoE Backs Off Drive To Speed Up Pit Production At Los Alamos

Aerial view of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Photo: LANL

Last spring, the Department of Energy quietly backed off a drive to produce 30 pits a year at the Los Alamos National Laboratory earlier than the agency’s long-established target of 2026, a recently published contract modification shows. The April 30, 2019 modification to Triad National Security’s Los Alamos National Laboratory management and operations contract scrubs out a directive for the nonprofit consortium “to accelerate manufacture of War Reserve (WR) pits to meet 30 pits/year, 1 year ahead of schedule” and…

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