A grant from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the government agency responsible for the Nation’s nuclear stockpile, will help the Savannah River Site (SRS) Museum illustrate the crucial role the Site has played since the 1950s in the Nation’s nuclear deterrent.

NNSA is providing $300,000 for a new permanent exhibit at the SRS Museum, entitled “Tritium: The Past and Future Mission,” that illustrates how the Nation’s need for tritium – the radioactive isotope of hydrogen used in modern nuclear weapons – formed the genesis of the Site, and how the Site’s flexible engineering and design allowed SRS to produce tritium, as well as plutonium and other nuclear materi- als during the Cold War. The exhibit will trace the Site’s legacy as the Nation’s only provider of tritium for the nuclear deterrent, and how SRS continues to fulfill that role in the 21st century.

“The history of SRS is a significant part of the history of NNSA,” said Jeffrey Allison, Savannah River Field Office Acting Manager. “Tritium, which SRS continues to supply today, along with the other nuclear materials produced during the Cold War, are essential to NNSA’s mission to ensure the United States maintains a safe, secure, and reliable nuclear stockpile.”