The Nation - News from Oct. 13, 1988
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Pentagon officials expressed relief at the Energy Department’s expectation that reactors could begin producing tritium for nuclear weapons as early as January. They said prolonged delay might jeopardize national security. One of three tritium-producing reactors at the Energy Department’s Savannah River Plant, in Aiken, S.C., will begin “a phased start-up” in December, culminating in January.
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