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> All plutonium used in US weapons was made in special purpose reactors at Hanford, WA Do you have a source for that? Wikipedia says "the majority" of the US a
by owenversteeg 8y ago
> All plutonium used in US weapons was made in special purpose reactors at Hanford, WA
Do you have a source for that? Wikipedia says "the majority" of the US arsenal, but the source is hidden behind a NYT subscriber paywall (article is from 1987.)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site#Cold_War_expansion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site#Cold_War_expansio...
- HillRat 8y agoDOE also enriched weapons-grade plutonium at the Savannah River (SC) site, built after Hanford and thus somewhat less environmentally catastrophic. It’s still an operating facility, but for tritium, not plutonium.