The proposed plutonium pit facility at Savannah River Site will reconstruct a massive 500-room partially completely abandoned ...

As the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) awaits its marching orders from the Trump ...

F or the first time in 35 years, the US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has manufactured a plutonium pit for ...

The timing of the study is particularly significant. The U.S. Department of Defense recently announced plans to increase ...

After almost two months of negotiation, a compromise in an environmental lawsuit about plutonium pit production seems imminent. U.S. District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis ruled in September the ...

The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration is “clear-eyed about the work ahead” with its two-site ...

If approved, the proposed agreement, reached Thursday, would leave Los Alamos National Laboratory as the agency’s only pit production ... of deciding to produce plutonium pits, the trigger ...

“Given this major legal victory, the public will now have the opportunity to formally comment on not only the environmental and health impacts of plutonium pit production but also the costly and ...

BY SUZIE SCHWARTZTaoseños for Peaceful and Livable Futures As you know, on January 10, the National Nuclear Security ...

Photo ©High Flyer, 2020. Los Alamos National Lab is engaged in a rushed program to increase plutonium pit production for new nuclear weapons. Diagram of nuclear warhead, with plutonium pit.

More than 60 Tri-Valley residents turned out to a public meeting on the Livermore Lab's role in a nationwide program to enhance the production of plutonium weapons, with additional public meetings now ...

and has been tasked with increasing plutonium pit production as the U.S. modernizes its nuclear arsenal. The laboratory has also historically played a role in advancing computing and has plans to ...