By George Lobsenz Facing budget constraints and the possibility of even deeper cuts in the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal than currently planned, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has preliminarily proposed building a scaled-back Uranium Processing Facility at its Y-12 plant--but not the smallest such facility it considered for the Tennessee site. NNSA, the semi-autonomous Energy Department agency that manages the department's nuclear weapons complex, announced its initial decision in favor of a "capability-sized" Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) in a…
NNSA Proposes Smaller–But Not Smallest–Uranium Processing Facility
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