Return to document. The primary stage is identical to a regular fission weapon and it is this stage which uses tritium. Return to document. Kalinowski and Colschen 1995, p. 142. The Department of Energy classifies numbers concerning the production, inventory, and use of tritium for national security purposes.
Analysts use a variety of sources to estimate tritium numbers.
The data and estimates used in this paper are drawn from estimates made by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Martin Kalinowski, Lars Colschen and others. Return to document. The chosen technology would be either at the Savannah River Site, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Nevada Test Site, Pantex Plant, or Oak Ridge Reservation. Return to document. Return to document.