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Texas wildfires force major nuclear weapons facility to briefly pause operations

By Jessica McKenzie, François Diaz-Maurin | Climate Change, Nuclear Weapons

The Plutonium Facility at Los Alamos, in front of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. Photo credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory

Dealing with a debacle: A better plan for US plutonium pit production

By Curtis T. Asplund, Frank von Hippel | Nuclear Weapons

The troubled Mixed-oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility project at the Savannah River Site is proposed to be transformed into a plutonium pit production facility. Photo (c) Timothy Mousseau, 2019.

Why a decision on a second US plutonium-pit-production factory should be delayed

By Frank von Hippel | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons