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United States: Carlsbad Site Has Advantages for Location of New Pit Facility, Abraham Says U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham has said there would be advantages to building a new plant to produce plutonium triggers, or “pits,” for nuclear weapons at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, N.M., the Associated Press reported today (see GSN, July 8). In a letter to Senator Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), Abraham said the workforce of the plant and the opportunities for collaboration with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories and state universities make the Carlsbad site an attractive location for the Modern Pit Facility. The Carlsbad site also has the benefits of being remote and of having a low area population, Abraham said. Domenici, who supports the Carlsbad site as being the location for the pit plant, said he welcomed Abraham’s acknowledgement of Carlsbad’s potential benefits. “As the selection process moves forward, I believe the Energy Department will see more advantages to the Carlsbad site,” Domenici said. “We still face plenty of competition, but I welcome Secretary Abraham’s acknowledgement that the Carlsbad site does offer some advantages over the other sites,” he said (Associated Press, Aug. 1).
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