Plutonium Pit Factory at Savannah River Site

under construction

The project involves retrofitting a massive building at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to house production lines for plutonium pits, which are critical components of atomic bombs. The facility was originally intended to be a nuclear fuel plant but is now being converted to produce plutonium pits to replenish the U.S. atomic weapons stockpile and support new types of nuclear weapons.