2001-02-16
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Richard E. Rowberg
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2001/01/12
The United State Department of Energy has contracted with the Tennessee Valley Authority(TVA0 to produce tritium for the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile at the TVA Watts Bar and Sequoyah nuclear power plants. Tritium is a critical component of thermonuclear weapons and needs to be replenished because it is a radioactive substance with a short(12.3 years)half-life. The nation currently has no tritium production facilities capable of meeting the demands of the stockpile. This report, which replaces CRS Issue Brief 97002, provides a background discussion about tritium, describes the process that led up to the DOE dicisioin, relates congressional appropriations and authorization actions during the 106th Congress, and analyzes the important issues that were debated during the decision-making process. These issues are not completely resolved and may continue into the 107th Congress as actual production approaches. The report should be useful for those Members and staff that need to review the tritium issue and that will continue to follow it during future congressional deliberations of the DOE budget request. The report will be updated as appropriate.
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