The National Nuclear Security Administration is looking to build a new manufacturing facility capable of producing at least 125 plutonium pits a year, officials at the Energy Department agency said last week. Plutonium pits are the softball-sized triggers used to detonate U.S. nuclear weapons. The proposed Modern Pit Facility (MPF) would allow NNSA to resume large-scale pit production for the first time since the Rocky Flats Plant in Golden, CO, was shut down in 1989. The new facility would enable...
