This story has been changed to correct an error. Uranium byproduct, not plutonium pits, will be sent to Tennessee.
At the Nancy Carson Library in Augusta, Ga., on Oct. 23, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) held a public meeting under the Savannah River Site’s (SRS) new mission to produce 50 of 80 of the nation’s annual stockpile of plutonium pits, the source of explosion at the core of nuclear warheads.
“This is only one of 6,000 components of a nuclear weapon,” assured SRNS employee Susan O’Malley at the meeting. “We’re not making the bomb here.”…