Missing the 2030 Pit deadline already:
https://www.postandcourier.com/aikenstandard/news/savannah-river-site/80-pits-by-2030-wont-happen-nnsa-boss-reaffirms-but-acceleration-is-in-the-works/article_8c97850e-88f9-11ec-9303-7f85431d832b.html
Missing the 2030 Pit deadline already:
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1 Pit could be more feasible.
I think one scenario is SR falls through, LANL falls through and after 2030 if they still want pits they are going to have to make a separate facility from the ground up or Rocky Flats 2.
80 pits by 2030 always seemed like a joke but after hearing Mason speak I have real doubts about LANL.
Option 2,pay Elon Musk to make them, in exchange from dominion over Mars or something.
I think we are going to have WW3 long before SR gets to even one pit.
We don't need more pits to win WWIII. Nuclear weapons will not be used. But many, many people will die.
We don't need more pits for WWIII. It won't be fought with nuclear weapons (maybe just at the end when it won't mater much).
Somebody needs to remind Dr Jill Hruby that the United States once produced ten thousand times that number of pits in a shorter period of time, using 1950s technology, at one tenth that price without paying fat salaries like hers. Pit production is nothing but a gigantic cash cow - much like NIF[sic].
2/19/2022 5:22 AM
That's before personnel protection and radiation restrictions existed. Also handling, operational safety and security requirements and regulations. It isn't about salaries. Nobody is going to use a 1950's lathe to machine a Pu pit.
5:25 nobody is going to use a 2020’s lathe to machine a plutonium pit either.
Cast and welded, not turned.
"nobody is going to use a 2020’s lathe to machine a plutonium pit either.
2/20/2022 5:12 PM"
Odds are they are not going be using a 2030 lathe to machine a plutonium pit either.
Right, cut and weld. I know that.
The way things are headed, we're going to need those pits PDQ !
The project team couldn’t produce BBQ pits much less nuke pits.
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