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CLUNEY UNCLASSIFIED DATA 2 (bKD) As a matter of policy, national security requirements, not arbitrary constraints on nuclear material availability and weapons fabrication capacity, shall be the limiting factor in the nuclear force structure. To this end, DOE shall: 1. Assure the capability to meet current and projected needs for nuclear materials. To assure this capability, DOE shall: (a) maintain the currently operating nuclear material production facilities, and (b) restart the L reactor at the Savannah River Plant, Aiken, s.c., as soon as possible. DOE shall also initiate the conceptual plan or other design of necessary nuclear material and weapons production facilities for the 1990s, including a new production reactor to provide for an assured supply of tritium. (bYD (bK(3) The guidance that I have issued concerning the above policy and the associated directed activity has remained essentially unchanged since first issued by NSDD-28, - March 17, 1982. (bXD) GECRET / RESTRICTED DATA Beclassify OIT: OADR ECCRE UNCLASSIFIED