Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 41
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October 27, 2023

Plutonium mission stressing NNSA glovebox supply chain

By Dan Parsons
The race to build 80 nuclear weapon cores per year is stretching the U.S. supply of gloveboxes used to keep engineers radiation-free while manipulating plutonium and other hazardous materials.  The equipment is becoming difficult to source, Michael Robinson, vice…
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