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Mike Turner: “The goal of 80 pits per year, is that arbitrary or is that based upon our needs for a modernization?”

On the recordApril 8, 2019
The goal of 80 pits per year, is that arbitrary or is that based upon our needs for a modernization?
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Mike Turner
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Turner questions the rationale behind the production goal for nuclear pits.

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