Gigantic Department of Energy Program to Make Plutonium Warhead Cores 'pits' Has Overshot Its Budget and is Being Re-Evaluated
July 15, 2025
July 15, 2025
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, July 15 -- The Los Alamos Study Group issued the following news release:
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Gigantic Department of Energy program to make plutonium warhead cores ("pits") has overshot its budget and is being re-evaluated
NNSA has no analysis of alternatives supportive of its present pit plans. Los Alamos Study Group: it needs one.
Previously: Multi-year delays in plutonium "pit" production at Los Alamos now requi . . .
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Gigantic Department of Energy program to make plutonium warhead cores ("pits") has overshot its budget and is being re-evaluated
NNSA has no analysis of alternatives supportive of its present pit plans. Los Alamos Study Group: it needs one.
Previously: Multi-year delays in plutonium "pit" production at Los Alamos now requi . . .