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WASHINGTON — The Energy Department moved ahead Thursday on further restricting the nation’s most dangerous nuclear material, part of a plan to scale back and modernize management of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile.
The department gave preliminary approval to an environmental impact study on the consolidation program, which includes limiting plutonium and highly enriched uranium to five sites, compared with seven today. The government also would close 600 buildings and structures and reduce the number of workers involved in weapons programs by 20 percent to 30 percent.
