Public Comment Training: Preventing Plutonium Pit Production
June 26 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is moving forward with plans to produce plutonium pits—the bomb cores of thermonuclear weapons—at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina despite no demonstrated need. These new pits are unnecessary for the safety and security of the U.S. nuclear arsenal; indeed, they are intended for newly designed nuclear warheads which increase the nuclear threat, according to analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists.
UCS invites you to a training webinar on how to submit a comment to ensure the NNSA fully considers the public and environmental risks that come with expanded plutonium pit production. We must hold the NNSA accountable.
Comment periods help increase transparency to the public, and it is crucial that the NNSA and the U.S. Department of Energy hear from scientists, experts, and community members like you.