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17. All facilities at Rocky Flats for the production’of
plutonium 239 and uranium 235,
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were completed for
beneficial occupancy at the end of March except the final shell
fabrication building,
This building is expected to be completed
by the middle of June and the only remaining major piece of
equipment, a large rolling and forming mill,
is expected to be
installed before September.
18, The tritium-deuterium gas packaging plant at Savannah
River was 52 percent complete versus 62 percent scheduled at the
end of March,
Plant operations are expected to begin in the
September-December quarter.
19, The Burlington-Pantex expansion,
final assembly of
versus 41 percent
DELELED
being built for the
components, was 39 percent complete
scheduled at the end of March,
Adverse weather
conditions slowed progress on the project somewhat and the target
date for completion of the first unit was postponed from April 6
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20, Full-scale production facilities for the manufacture of
external initiators (XR units) at the General Electric Panelles
Plant in Florida were completed in January,
This plant was
‘designed and constructed and is being operated by the General
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‘inal Letter of Intent authorized the comperny to finance
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Electric Company under subcontract from the Sandia Corporation.
abous $3,000,000, which would pay for site acquisition and the
construction of facilities necessary for a normal light
manufacturing plant,
and stated that the AEC would finance an
equal amount, which would provide for the construction of srecial
facilities such es oversized air cor.ditioning and utilities
necessary for production of tne XR units.
The Letter also
provided for the Commission's cption to purchase the plant and
facilities from the company.
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