[CPEO-MEF] Plutonium pit production

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Sites under consideration for new nuclear tests

By LAUNCE RAKE
Knoxville News-Sentinel
December 2, 2006

The federal government is looking for a place to resume what it stopped 
doing 17 years ago at its notorious Rocky Flats facility in Colorado: 
manufacturing the metal cores at the heart of nuclear weapons.

The sites under consideration are Southern Nevada, and outside Amarillo, 
Texas; Los Alamos, N.M; Oak Ridge, Tenn.; and Aiken, S.C.
	
The chosen site will be used for decades for above- and below-ground 
test detonations of nuclear bombs.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/national/article/0,1406,KNS_350_5183201,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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