By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 17th, 2013
A “large inventory” of nuclear weapons parts and related materials are “scattered across” America’s nuclearweapons sites and are in need of disposal, stated a little-known contractor report prepared last year for theDepartment of Energy.
Precisely what nuclear weapons components need disposal? That matter is classified.
What is known is that “Department of Energy (DOE) tasked WDD [Weapons Dismantlement andDisposal] working group to disposition the large inventory of legacy classified weapon components scatteredacross the [U.S. nuclear weapons] complex,” according to the study.
So then what’s the problem?
“There is no complex-wide cost-effective classified weapon disposition strategy,” stated the report.
Current “methods differ based on immediate site needs,” and “only a small portion of the inventory has beendispositioned and it has not always been in a cost-effective manner,” pointed out the informative document.
