NNSA Says Blocking Plutonium Shipments to Nevada Will Freeze
Stockpile Safety Tests
Exchange Monitor | 2/15/2019
Blocking all plutonium shipments to Nevada, as the state desires, would disrupt experiments there that help the government determine whether U.S. nuclear weapons still work as intended, the National Nuclear Security Administration argued in federal court this week.
U.S. District Judge Miranda Du should deny injunction requested by the state in part because it “would require [the Department of Energy] to cease subcritical experiments performed by the Stockpile Stewardship Program (which helps to ensure the Nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile remains safe),” lawyers for the NNSA wrote in a Thursday response to Nevada’s Feb. 6 injunction motion.
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