Patrick Malone

Reporter

Patrick Malone is a contributor to the Center for Public Integrity.

Patrick Malone is a contributor to the Center for Public Integrity.


A worker at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina uses a glovebox to handle hazardous materials. The Savannah River Site is one of the locations the Trump administration is considering to host a ramp-up in nuclear warhead production.

The US is set to ramp up nuclear warhead production. But key proposed sites are plagued by safety problems.

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The Department of Energy is scheduled to decide within days where plutonium parts for the next generation of nuclear weapons are to be made, but recent internal government reports indicate serious and persistent safety issues plague both of the two candidate sites: Los Alamos and Savannah River.

Sandia National Laboratories.

US nuclear weapons contractor has agreed to pay millions for misuse of federal funds

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A 'Ban the Bomb' sign earlier this month outside nuclear talks in Vienna.

Nuclear lab lets safety gaps languish for years

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