General Info

Savannah River Site, located in Aiken, S.C., is owned and funded by the Department of Energy and operated by the Washington Savannah River Company. The firm is responsible for the management of the nation s nuclear weapons stockpile, nuclear materials, and the environment. It was constructed during the early 1950s to produce the basic materials used in the fabrication of nuclear weapons, primarily tritium and plutonium-239, in support of the nation's defense programs. The firm also recycled tritium from existing weapons reservoirs. The Savannah River Site is spread over a more than 300-square-mile area in the southeastern coastal area of South Carolina.