Feds plan redo of weapon sites (plutonium weapons production)

[NVMojo]

Nevada Test Site being considered for new consolidated plutonium center

November 26, 2006

The federal government will head to Las Vegas this week to discuss its proposed top-to-bottom makeover of the nation's nuclear weapons system, an archipelago of research and production sites across two-thirds of the country.

One of the proposed changes could result in plutonium being manufactured at Nevada Test Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The Test Site is one of the eight sites in the national research and production system.

The 1,400-square-mile Test Site has been home to 40 years of above- and below-ground nuclear explosions and other nuclear weapons research. The Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration wants to modernize and ensure the reliability of the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons, consolidate operations and reduce the number of warheads in the national stockpile.

The proposal, which could cost billions of dollars, is intended to result in a safer and more reliable system that is cheaper to run.

One element of the proposal calls for a new manufacturing site for plutonium, the explosive metal at the heart of nuclear weapons. Nevada Test Site is one of five sites considered for the new consolidated plutonium center. The department closed its former manufacturing site, the Rocky Flats Plant outside Denver, in 1989.


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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-other/2006/nov/26/566667976.html

[NVMojo]

1. Kick to ask: why is it ok for the USA to do this but not N. Korea?

[Massacure]

2. Kick to ask: why is it okay for North Korea to do this but not the USA?

Point of view...

[ret5hd]

3. Is the NK govt now asking the UN for sanctionsagainst the US, etc???

If so, I ain't heard about it.

[NVMojo]

6. if you read the article, we have already been doing this. This is an expansion

plan.

[enlightenment]

4. Well, isn't that just ducky??

So, instead of the two-headed rabbits they had at Rocky Flats (I used to live in Denver - that was the not-so-funny joke about the place) we can have mutant desert tortoises.

oooooh, we are soooooo lucky.

crap.

[lovuian]

5. Can we get Universal health for our Americans

:argh: