The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is currently designing a $2-4 billion Modern Pit Facility (MPF)i that will cost taxpayers nearly $7 million in FY2005. The facility’s proponents at the NNSA have used extreme rhetoric that depicts a US nuclear stockpile on the verge of extinction, a view that is not backed up by the facts. Given what we know about pit lifetimes, the MPF is premature at best and completely unnecessary at worst. Read more here.
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