The Draft Plutonium Pit Production PEIS is an Environmental Impact Statement required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) as a result of the lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which challenged the federal agencies’ decision not to examine the possible wider impacts of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina producing these warhead triggers, also known as pits.

The Draft Plutonium Pit PEIS assumes that the United States will produce at least 80 plutonium pits per year, and it is comprised of 3 Alternatives:

• No-Action Alternative: LANL will produce 30 plutonium pits per year, with the capacity of producing up to 80 pits per year.

• Multi-Site Alternative: NNSA would produce 30 plutonium pits per year at LANL (and up to 80), and 50 plutonium pits per year at SRS (up to 125). This is the NNSA’s preferred alternative.

• Single-Site Alternative: NNSA would produce plutonium pits at either LANL or SRS. It would be up to 80 pits per year at LANL and 50-125 pits per year at SRS.

The purpose of plutonium pit production is to create more nuclear bombs.