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Los Alamos Lab falls behind on nuclear pit production due to aging facilities, safety issues, and workforce strain.
Los Alamos National Laboratory is struggling to meet U.S. nuclear modernization goals, with only one plutonium pit approved for the stockpile by late 2024 despite a 2026 target of 30 annually.
Operating in the aging PF-4 facility, the lab faces recurring radioactive contamination, equipment failures, elevator outages forcing manual handling of nuclear materials, and overcrowding from a 50% workforce increase since 2018.
Federal officials have launched leadership reviews amid concerns over safety, efficiency, and delays in a $1.7 trillion modernization effort, with renovations complicated by ongoing operations in a facility described as being "overhauled in flight."
Los Alamos Lab se queda atrás en la producción de fosas nucleares debido al envejecimiento de las instalaciones, los problemas de seguridad y la tensión de la fuerza laboral.