AMARILLO GLOBE-NEWS
January 25, 2016
AMARILLO — A nuclear safety agency has reported the federal Department of Energy recently approved plans to ramp up production of plutonium “pits,” the core that that triggers nuclear weapons, at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, which could lead to more warhead refurbishment work at the Pantex Plant northeast of Amarillo.
The plans include a big increase in plutonium capacity at an existing facility at Los Alamos and new laboratory space for pit production, part of plans to get pit production up and rolling.
lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2016-01-25/rise-plutonium-production-points-more-work-pantex
January 25, 2016
AMARILLO — A nuclear safety agency has reported the federal Department of Energy recently approved plans to ramp up production of plutonium “pits,” the core that that triggers nuclear weapons, at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, which could lead to more warhead refurbishment work at the Pantex Plant northeast of Amarillo.
The plans include a big increase in plutonium capacity at an existing facility at Los Alamos and new laboratory space for pit production, part of plans to get pit production up and rolling.
lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2016-01-25/rise-plutonium-production-points-more-work-pantex
Comments
I guess I wasn't clear in my question of 6:05 AM. I was not suggesting moving LANL Pit work to Pantex, but having CNS take over the work at LANL.
This has been done at other large DOE/NNSA sites like INL, Oak Ridge, and Savannah River where work (and whole facilities) has be carved off from the main M&O contact and turned over to a separate M&O Contractor.
The best comparable example is Oak Ridge that use to have one M&O running both Y-12 and ORNL, now it has two: CNS for Y-12 and UT-Battelle for ORNL.
Y-12, well even nuns can get into that. Bad idea. Bechtel should run it all.