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Los Alamos National Laboratory

A worker at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina uses a glovebox to handle hazardous materials. The Savannah River Site is one of the locations the Trump administration is considering to host a ramp-up in nuclear warhead production.

The US is set to ramp up nuclear warhead production. But key proposed sites are plagued by safety problems.

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The Department of Energy is scheduled to decide within days where plutonium parts for the next generation of nuclear weapons are to be made, but recent internal government reports indicate serious and persistent safety issues plague both of the two candidate sites: Los Alamos and Savannah River.

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