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PF-4 is being transformed from an experimental laboratory that focuses mostly on research into a facility that mass-produces plutonium “pits.”
In 2018, Congress passed a law mandating that PF-4 produce 30 pits a year by 2026.
The Biden Administration has pumped $4.6 billion into Los Alamos this fiscal year alone.
Coast-to-coast recruiting efforts are underway to increase the lab’s workforce, which is already at a record 17,273.
After a three-decade break from manufacturing nuclear weapons, the U.S. is getting back into the game.
PF-4 is being transformed from an experimental laboratory that focuses mostly on research into a facility that mass-produces plutonium “pits.”
In 2018, Congress passed a law mandating that PF-4 produce 30 pits a year by 2026.
The Biden Administration has pumped $4.6 billion into Los Alamos this fiscal year alone.
Coast-to-coast recruiting efforts are underway to increase the lab’s workforce, which is already at a record 17,273.
After a three-decade break from manufacturing nuclear weapons, the U.S. is getting back into the game.
The only reason you are seeing this story is because Time is near bankruptcy and has to toss out a news story linking Oppenheimer and Los Alamos to get some extra clicks and add revenue.
P.S. Did they mention AI, Sharks and the Barbie Movie too just to hit search engines?
The only reason you are seeing this story is because Time is near bankruptcy and has to toss out a news story linking Oppenheimer and Los Alamos to get some extra clicks and add revenue.
P.S. Did they mention AI, Sharks and the Barbie Movie too just to hit search engines?
Half life is something like 24000 years. So it's not the decay per say, but the possible radiation damage to the material and also helium production within.
I thought they just recycle old pits but I might be wrong.
A friend on Facebook has been posting screen shots of all the Quora posts asking if Oppenheimer was really based on a true story.
I've seen a historical note that says a captured German scientist, two weeks after arriving in the U.S., wrote it on a blackboard how to make the bomb. And then a couple of months later the Manhattan project had a working bomb.
Now another captured German scientist, working on the Manhattan project, was passing notes to the Russian embassy. Russia also had some captured German scientists.
Previously, an American scientist warned the Manhattan project that to build the bomb the entire country would have to become a factory. Well, both Oak Ridge TN and Hanford WA contributed nuclear material to the project.
Everyone, Atlantic and Pacific, underestimated the industrial capability of the U.S. For instance, because of the TVA, the U.S. could build aluminum cargo ships faster than they were being sunk. And of course Oak Ridge and Hanford could supply the Manhattan project with nuclear material. (Of course aircraft are made with aluminum and all Russia wanted from the U.S., for its counter-attack on Germany, was aluminum.)
A friend on Facebook has been posting screen shots of all the Quora posts asking if Oppenheimer was really based on a true story.
What? In what sense?
These folks want to know if J. Robert Oppenheimer existed and was a main developer of the atomic bomb?
If that is the case, the answer is yes. I guess the history teacher back in high school should have presented a bit more history and a bit less gender and sex bull****, eh? Few less drag queens and a few more history texts.
Frankly, we're likely going to need to retain the ability to manufacture plutonium for a long, long time. If nothing else, it's highly useful for deep space missions.
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