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US nuclear weapon production sites violated environmental rules, federal judge decides

  • A federal judge ruled that the National Nuclear Security Administration did not follow environmental regulations in expanding plutonium pit production in South Carolina and New Mexico.
  • Plaintiffs argued that a 2018 plan for the Savannah River and Los Alamos sites used an outdated environmental impact study.
  • Judge Mary Geiger Lewis stated that regulators failed to analyze the combined environmental effects of their two-site strategy and did not provide adequate reasoning for their approach.
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