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NNSA Completes New HEU Storage Facility At Y-12

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Thursday, September 11th, 2008

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In a project that addresses one of the Energy Department's biggest security concerns, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said Tuesday that it has completed construction a new storage facility for highly enriched uranium at its Y-12 site, where the weapons-usable material is now stored in multiple aging buildings that are hard to protect against terrorist threats. NNSA, the semi-autonomous DoE agency that runs the department's nuclear weapons complex, said the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility (HEUMF) will play a…

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