Thursday, April 06, 2006
Putting All Plutonium In 1 Place
BY H. JOSEF HEBERT The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Energy Department announced plans Wednesday to consolidate virtually all of the government’s weapons research and development involving plutonium at a single site to enhance security.
The plan, which is part of a broader overhaul of the weapons program over the next two decades, calls for removing plutonium stocks now at the Livermore National Laboratory in California by 2014 and from all current facilities, including Los Alamos National Laboratory, by 2022.
Plutonium — a radioactive material that can be deadly if ingested or inhaled — is now kept at seven facilities within the government’s weapons production and research complex, posing difficult and expensive security issues at some of them.
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WASHINGTON — The Energy Department announced plans Wednesday to consolidate virtually all of the government’s weapons research and development involving plutonium at a single site to enhance security.
The plan, which is part of a broader overhaul of the weapons program over the next two decades, calls for removing plutonium stocks now at the Livermore National Laboratory in California by 2014 and from all current facilities, including Los Alamos National Laboratory, by 2022.
Plutonium — a radioactive material that can be deadly if ingested or inhaled — is now kept at seven facilities within the government’s weapons production and research complex, posing difficult and expensive security issues at some of them.
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Looks like LLNL's days as a major national security lab are numbered...
If you think that national security is merely defined as X kilotons on target, then you don't have a clue.
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If you think that national security is merely defined as X kilotons on target, then you don't have a clue.
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