Guest Editorial: New Plutonium Warhead Mission at SRS is the Pits
Aiken (South Carolina) Standard, June 24, 2019
by Tom Clements, Director, SRS Watch
Succumbing to organizational flaws, the U.S. Department of Energy is rushing into a controversial and complex project at the Savannah River Site for which costs and need have not been established.
That new project is the production of plutonium “pits” for nuclear weapons. A pit is the hollow spherical core that initiates the nuclear explosion.
op-ed linked here: https://www.aikenstandard.com/opinion/guest-column-new-plutonium-mission-at-srs-is-the-pits/article_96f50aa0-9471-11e9-900e-734cc97b0a5e.html
pdf version: Aiken Standard Clements op-ed on pits June 24 2019