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...Pont: Savannah River...
...Pont operates Savannah River, near Aiken, S C., on a non-profit basis for the government. Built by the chemicals giant in 1950 at the behest of the DOE's ancestor, the Atomic Energy Commission, the plant produces plutonium and tritium for nuclear weapons production. Harvard owns almost $5 million of Du Pont stock...
...Pont technicians also conduct research at Savannah River on various parts of the nuclear fuel cycle and manage the only two facilities in the country which can reprocess plutonium and uranium from nuclear waste produced by the defense program...
...vote, with one abstention, the ACSR--which advises the Corporation on the ethical implications of Harvard's investment policy--voted to support a resolution sponsored by several Church groups that calls on Du Pont to half its management of the Savannah River plant. At the South Carolina plant. Du Pont produces plutonium and tritium for nuclear weapons, as well as conducting research on nuclear arms for the U.S. Department of Energy...
...Government will not say what its plutonium stockpiles are, but consideration is being given to construction of two new plutonium production reactors alongside plants currently operating in Savannah River, S.C., and Hanford, Wash. Neither project is expected to be completed before 1990, and the eventual cost is estimated by one weapons authority to be "fantastically expensive-in the billions...