DOE Hides Just-Approved, Official Cost Estimate of SRS Plutonium Pit Plant, Keeps
Public in the Dark about Size of Escalating Cost for New Nuclear Weapons Facility,
WIPP
Confirmation that Plutonium “Dilute & Dispose” Program Ended, Equipment Transferred to Plutonium Pit Project
DOE has confirmed, via a weekly report of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB), that the program at SRS to dispose of surplus weapons plutonium as waste – in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico –