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U.S. to Resume Vital Tritium Production

October 22, 2003 :: ABC News :: News

The production of Tritium, an important component to the American nuclear arsenal, on hold since 1988, will now resume. Because the hydrogen isotope decays over time (half life of 12 years), new Tritium must constantly replace the old to even maintain the nuclear stockpile in functioning condition. Despite complaints from disarmament enthusiasts, the Tennessee Watts Bar nuclear reactor has now resumed the production of this strategic material, however, an action essential to the future of American strategic operations. Were production to be further suspended, the U.S. would have had to dip into its five year reserve beginning in 2005.
        The Watts Bar reactor is located in Spring City, TN, approximately 45 miles from the town of Oak Ridge, where part of the Manhattan Project (the U.S. atomic bomb program) was located.

 

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