Manufacturing plutonium "pits" for nuclear weapons : technical aspects & considerations for congress /
A ""pit"" is the plutonium ""trigger"" of a thermonuclear weapon. During the Cold War, the Rocky Flats Plant (CO) made up to 2,000 pits per year (ppy), but ceased operations in 1989. Since then, the Department of Energy (DOE) has made at most 11 ppy for the st...
Other Authors: | Mason, Ryan H. (Editor) |
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Nova Science Publishers,
2014
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Series: | Nuclear materials and disaster research
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