NNSA says: Just shut up and give us the money for the proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP), even if it’s not justified or needed. Planning for large-scale nuclear war is profitable for DOE contractors and taxpayers don’t have the right to challenge our “logic” on expanded pit production!
“An Unanswered Question at the Heart of the U.S.’s Nuclear Arsenal”
“Nobody knows how long the plutonium “pits” in the cores of bombs last, and the answer could cost—or save—billions”
By Stephen Young, Union of Concerned Scientists, in Scientific American, January 28, 2020
“Congress should put the NNSA’S feet to the fire. Sen. Feinstein, sponsor of the JASON study, is the ranking member of the Senate committee that oversees the NNSA. She should push the committee to direct the NNSA to undertake the “focused program” that JASON recommends, now. The answer will determine whether the U.S. needs to spend tens of billions of dollars in a rush to produce pits, or whether it can sensibly and safely postpone that decision.”