Los Alamos Races to Double Plutonium Pit Production
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Los Alamos National Laboratory races to produce at least sixty plutonium pits per year for nuclear weapons, doubling previous targets, as per a recent memo aiming for American nuclear dominance by 2028. The rush to remove production bottlenecks raises safety concerns, with experts questioning feasibility. Historically, pit production halted in 1992, restarting in 2007, and now Los Alamos leads, producing its first certified pit in October 2024, despite infrastructure challenges.
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