US senators wrote on Sept. 13, 2019 to House & Senate Armed Services leaders, against unjustified “Plutonium Bomb Plant” at SRS, for provocative, new W87-1 nuclear warhead.
Under the misguided proposal from DOE, the Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) would produce 50 or more pits per year, all going to the W87-1 warhead. There is absolutely no “need” for this costly, dangerous project which would “repurpose” the abandoned plutonium fuel (MOX) plant into pit production (but DOE has not made any attempt to show this could be done in the mal-constructed, partially finished MOX building).
Letter linked here: