NNSA Reports Progress on Tritium Extraction Site

Progress has been made on the construction of a facility designed to extract tritium, a hydrogen isotope used in nuclear weapons, from nuclear fuel rods, the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration reported last month (see GSN, Oct. 23, 2003).

Construction crews have completed work on the one of two furnaces at the Savannah River Site Tritium Extraction Facility in South Carolina that will be used to heat the fuel rods to extract the isotope, the agency said. Construction is expected to be completed by the second quarter of fiscal 2005, with operation set to begin in fiscal 2007 (NNSA release, March 2004, p.5).

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