The Energy Department says it is closing in on mass producing warhead-ready plutonium pits—the explosive core of nuclear ...

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For the first time in 35 years, the US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has manufactured a plutonium pit for use in a nuclear weapon. Functioning as a radioactive core for nuclear ...

The component, called a “plutonium pit,” is the radioactive component that acts as a first stage ‘trigger’ apparatus used to initiate the detonation of the thermonuclear device. Plans call for the W87 ...

SANTA FE, N.M. -- The National Nuclear Security Administration failed to properly evaluate its expansion of plutonium pit production at sites in South Carolina and New Mexico in violation of ...

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Los Alamos National Laboratory has successfully manufactured the first approved plutonium pit as part of an effort to modernize the nation’s nuclear weapons arsenal. The National Nuclear ...

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Ed Miliband has been urged to preserve a 140-tonne stockpile of radioactive plutonium instead of burying it as dangerous waste. The material, which is made up of spent fuel from power plants ...

The component, called a “plutonium pit,” is the radioactive component that acts as a first stage ‘trigger’ apparatus used to initiate the detonation of the thermonuclear device.