America has at present lost its capacity to make tritium, an essential ingredient of nuclear weapons.

The department's last reactor for making tritium was shut down for safety reasons 10 years ago.

Today the plant makes tritium and radioisotopes, but no plutonium.

It has lost the capacity to make tritium, a vital nuclear material.

The Reagan Administration recently proposed spending $6.8 billion to build two new reactors for making tritium.

The number of countries that have H-bombs is limited because the technology for making tritium is so hard to come by.

The operable reactors for making tritium are not certain to last another decade, the time probably needed to build a replacement.

The idea of building at least one new reactor to make tritium predates the Reagan Administration.

The United States then had five reactors that could make tritium, and some were nearly 30 years old.