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United States II: Protesters Criticize Plutonium Pit Production Seventy protesters traveled from Atlanta to North Augusta, S.C., yesterday to denounce an Energy Department plan that could restart the production of triggers for nuclear weapons at the Savannah River Site (see GSN, July 7). Energy is considering five sites to produce the triggers, or “pits,” including Amarillo, Texas; Carlsbad, N.M.; Los Alamos, N.M.; the Nevada Test Site; and South Carolina’s Savannah River. A new plant would begin production in 2020, and the United States says the prospective facility must produce at least 125 pits every year to maintain the nation’s nuclear stockpile. “I don’t know if there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but we do know there are weapons of mass destruction in the United States,” said the Rev. Joseph Lowery. Georgia state Representative Nan Grogan Orrock (D) said the Savannah River Site has contaminated Georgia’s groundwater for decades (Milo Ippolito, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 8).
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