LANL Nuclear Pit Production: On the Back Burner for Now

Heh all you two - leggeds, I just got this post and decided to forward it to you to let you know, that you have slowed things down, good goin'.
And by the way, since most of you are doing your voting rituals, please keep in mind that voting for anyone with PTSD may not be in our best interests.
Thanks,
Bearsense

Citizens’ Victory! NNSA Decides to Not Expand Plutonium Pit Production at LANL
Santa Fe, NM: For nearly two years the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency within the Department of Energy, has been seeking to raise the level of plutonium pit production at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Yesterday NNSA released a final Complex Transformation SPEIS summary that states net production at Los Alamos would be limited to a maximum of 20 pits per year. Nuclear Watch applauds the downward trajectory of projected plutonium pit production, which is a result of effective citizen activism leading to Congressional denials of funding. Nuclear Watch claimed that all along the primary purpose of expanded pit production was to produce new-design nuclear weapons. Now at this late date, the departing leadership at NNSA is bowing to the political reality that Congressional rejection of new-design nuclear weapons means that there is no need for expanded plutonium pit production. Naturally we are pleased with NNSA’s decision to follow our advice.
Nuclear Watch Press Release [120KB] – October 10, 2008
NNSA’s summary of the Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement. The decision to limit plutonium pit production is stated on page S-13.
http://www.nukewatch.org/index.php