Mobile Plutonium Facility Early Operations

The Mobile Plutonium Facility (MPF) can deploy a subset of its Plutonium Response Team (PRT) members and equipment to a location outside of the United States to assist Department of Defense or other entities in a mission scenario where it is necessary to assemble large quantities of nuclear materials in a single location with configuration that is safe from a criticality. This assembly of materials would be temporary until characterization and packaging for shipment out of the Host Country (HC) could be performed by the full MPF team or as otherwise directed by the NNSA.

The MPF was developed and is maintained through the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Material Management and Minimization Mobile Packaging Program.