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Rocky Flats

Red light for the greenway: Locals oppose wildlife corridor at plutonium-contaminated Rocky Flats site

By John Abbotts | Nuclear Waste, 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