§6122 Manufacturing infrastructure for refabrication and certification of nuclear weapons stockpile

Summary

The Secretary of Energy must run a program to create government manufacturing capabilities that can do five things: support stockpile surveillance engineering; refabricate and certify existing weapon components and types as needed; make and certify new nuclear warheads as needed; provide support for nuclear weapons; and supply enough tritium to ensure an upload hedge if required. The program must also build the manufacturing capacity needed to meet the annual Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Memorandum. Those manufacturing capabilities must be modernized and include: weapons assembly and high‑explosives manufacture at the Pantex Plant; weapon secondary fabrication at the Y–12 National Security Complex, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; tritium recycling and processing at the Savannah River Site; fissile material processing and fabrication at the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility and Los Alamos National Laboratory; and non‑nuclear component work at the Kansas City National Security Campus, Kansas City, Missouri.