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Los Alamos lab may face greater demand for plutonium pits by   (Tribune News Service) The plutonium pit factory at Savannah River Site in South Carolina will take years longer and cost billions of dollars more to ramp up than previously planned, which could push Los Alamos National Laboratory to make more nuclear bomb cores to fill the gap, watchdog groups say. For the past three years, plans have called for the Los Alamos lab to produce 30 plutonium warhead triggers by 2026 and Savannah River to make 50 by 2030, but the latter is proving much more costly and nettlesome than anticip...

May 29—Los Alamos National Laboratory would receive about $1 billion for plutonium operations at the heart of its effort to produce 30 nuclear bomb cores by 2026, according to a partial budget the White House released Friday. The amount would be more than a 20 percent jump from the $837 million being spent this year on the lab's plutonium work, a clear signal that President Joe Biden will echo ...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... Ken Mayers of Veterans For Peace protests on April 23 at Guadalupe and West Alameda streets in Santa Fe, near a building LANL plans to use. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal) Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal SANTA FE – Something big – as in billions – is happening at Los Alamos National Laboratory. ................................................................ As part of efforts to ramp...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... From left, Michael Messner, Bushrod Lake and Pam Gilchrist, all with Veterans For Peace, protest in April near a downtown building LANL plans to use for its expansion into Santa Fe. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal) Santa Fe’s relationship with Los Alamos National Laboratory has been rocky for years. The City Council, with some regularity, has passed resolutions of concern about the nuclear weapo...

Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal SANTA FE – The National Nuclear Security Administration wanted to acquire the “entirety” of Santa Fe’s 64-acre Midtown property and partner with the city and other contractors with the redevelopment of the St. Michael’s Drive corridor, according to a proposal submitted to the city in October 2019. The Midtown campus has remained mostly vacant since the Santa Fe University of Art and Design closed in 2018. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal) The Department of Energy/NNSA proposal was not picked by a committee selected to vet the responses, but the ...