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The U.S. is ramping up construction of new “plutonium pits” for nuclear weapons

October 4th, 2023  http://nuclearactive.org/ Increasing numbers of workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have tested positive for radiation exposure both at LANL and on foreign soil.    Six employees and the equipment they used tested positive for exposures to radioactive Iodine-125 following official foreign travel to an unknown location in March.  They traveled on commercial airlines…

Given the serious cost, scheduling, and scientific questions about the US government's program for producing new plutonium cores (or pits) for nuclear warheads, the authors recommend the program be scaled back to manufacture 10 to 20 pits per year. Such a demonstration production line would establish the capacity to produce pits, if further research shows they are needed.

April 6th, 2023,  http://nuclearactive.org/ It’s time to break the silence about the permitting of the Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  Since 1963, the Facility has handled, treated and stored radioactive and hazardous liquid waste generated at the Plutonium Facility, where the triggers, or plutonium pits, for nuclear weapons are fabricated.…

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Alternatives. the status quo was an iranian nuclear program rocketing ahead nearly 20,000 secentrifuges. for at least 15 years, in my view, this is a dramatic improvement over the status quo. its not perfect because no compromise or concession is. but it is dramatically better than what we had, certainly better than the path that vice president cheney, you know, laid out yesterday. the track record of that path followed the cheney doctrine, and you ended up with expanding and accelerating irania...

Plutonium facility, arak will be dismantled. >> its basically being redone. >> but it will be a research reactor instead of a plutonium reactor. >> for all the pages of detail they listed in the parameters, the sanctions piece is very unclear. the iranians said their negotiators said we expect the sanctions to be lifted when the final agreement is signed. >> immediately. immediately. >> in june. the obama administration has always insisted that that was not going to happen unless iran was in com...

Iraq a withdrawal from afghanistan, some say prematurely. isis created, the confusion in this lengthy horrible war and red lines being drawn against assad, civil war in syria, with assad still there, not -- certainly not having gone as the president declared some four years ago or more. so this has been -- the one issue that he thought he could negotiate -- i think we have chris hill a former nuclear negotiator with north korea and former ambassador in iraq and elsewhere around the world and now...

Weaponization. more over, the agreement has so many other loopholes that just on the nuclear side, forget the sanctions relief for a minute, just on the nuclear side, i think iran has made simply superficial, easily reversible concessions. >> lets look at iraq. the inspectors are visiting that plutonium facility. we want them to dismantle it, and theyre refusing it. >> sure, and dismantling is not part of the genevagreement. what we have is iran giving a freebie, a tool for negotiation. now, big...

Nuclear machine. attend of the day, very, very clearly, they did not dismantle the one centrifuge, the enriched uranium doesnt come out, they have a plutonium facility. so the iranians have the industrial infrastructure that they built is absolutely there and in six months they can continue and reach a situation where we wont be a able to stop iran from making a bomb. >> the other countries that agree with the united states and went forward with this publicly have to say that they were for it. b...