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Columbia, SC – The executive summary of a classified report delivered to Congress reveals that the proposal to produce plutonium pits for nuclear weapons at the Savannah River Site and Los Alamos National Laboratory faces serious challenges. At SRS, the Department of Energy has proposed repurposing the shuttered plutonium fuel (MOX) building into a Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) but that project has not been authorized or funded by Congress.
The Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA) summary document was obtained by members of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) during visits with congressional and agency offices between May 20-22, as part of annual ANA educational visits to Washington.