Nuclear Health and Safety: Information on a Quality Assurance Problem at DOE's Savannah River Site

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information about the Department of Energy's (DOE) Savannah River Plant's material content problem with the nuclear reactor fuel and target tubes it used to make tritium, focusing on: (1) why some of the fuel and targets did not have the correct material content for reactor placement; (2) the material content problem's effects on reactor safety; (3) the costs to address the problem; and (4) implications for reactor restart.