4 episodes
Tom Clements, Director of Savannah River Site Watch, monitors DOE management of weapons-usable materials, nuclear weapons production, & clean-up of high-level nuclear waste.
The US already has 6,000 nuclear weapons. Why rush to build more plutonium pits, the bombs' trigger mechanism? Chris Mello of Los Alamos Study Group follows the money.
Plutonium Pit (revered to above as the “core”) is the detonator at the heart of nuclear bombs — and the United States is planning to make up to 80 pits a year for NEW nuclear weapons, in addition to the 1,500 ready-to-use
New Mexico Nuclear Nightmare SPECIAL : DOE wants Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) to get a new “ventilation” shaft – but activists point to long range plans by DOE to expand the site to take 50+ TONS of plutonium &
