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U.S. nuclear weapons assembly facility
Pantex plant
Pantex is the primary United States nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility that aims to maintain the safety, security and reliability of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile.[1][2] The facility is named for its location in the Panhandle of Texas on a 16,000-acre (25 sq mi; 65 km2) site 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Amarillo, in Carson County, Texas. The plant is managed and operated for the United States Department of Energy (DOE) by Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS) and Sandia National Laboratories. CNS is composed of member companies Bechtel, Leidos, Orbital ATK, and SOC, with Booz Allen Hamilton as a teaming subcontractor.[3] CNS also operates the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee, a manufacturing facility for nuclear weapons components.[3]
As a major national security site, the plant and its grounds are strictly controlled, and the airspace above and around the plant is prohibited to civilian air traffic by the FAA as Prohibited Area P-47.
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Pantex is the primary United States nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility that aims to maintain the safety, security and reliability of the...
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federal contractor that manages the Y-12 National Security Complex and the Pantex plant. Consolidated Nuclear Security is a joint venture of Bechtel, Leidos...
original on August 31, 2021. Retrieved August 31, 2021. "About Pantex Plant". www.pantex.com. Archived from the original on February 10, 2023. Retrieved...
Secure Transportation (OST) used the train to move the weapons from the Pantex plant in the Texas panhandle, where they had been constructed. The train...
resources. In 2010 authorization was given to disassemble the 50 bombs at the Pantex plant in Texas. The process of dismantling the last remaining B53 bomb in...
Kingdom which do warhead assembly and disassembly, the largest being the Pantex plant in Amarillo, Texas, which has 12 Gravel Gerties. Inside the Hill 60...
which has had the command disable facility activated must be returned to Pantex for repair. The B61 can be set for airburst or groundburst detonation, and...
quarter of 2019, and manufacturing is expected to last through FY2024 at the Pantex Plant. According to FAS, the W76-2 warhead was first deployed with USS Tennessee...
warheads were produced. The weapons were partially dismantled by 1999 at the Pantex Plant, with only the canned subassemblies (CSA) of the secondary stage of...
otherwise only offered to American critical infrastructure (such as the Pantex nuclear weapons plant), military bases, the Washington, D.C., Special Flight...
the word has its likely origin in Italian, and is related to the Latin pantex, meaning 'abdomen', cognate with English paunch. Open, quilted leather jackets...
square feet (28,000 m2) located entirely underground. KUMMSC is close to the Pantex facility in Texas and is also used to store weapons designated for disposal...
wear. In July 1994 the Dallas Morning News reported that the 13 Gerties at Pantex were showing gaps as large as 3/4" around their entry doors due to repetitive...
daybreak, the Air Force retrieved the warhead, which was returned to the Pantex weapons assembly plant. The launch complex was never repaired. Pieces of...
Retrieved 7 April 2014. "Pantex". Pantex. Archived from the original on 7 May 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2014. EPA (29 January 2013). "Pantex Plant (USDOE) Superfund...
thousand" warheads that have been retired and scheduled for dismantlement. The Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas, is the only location in the United States where...
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in the home comfort sector. Honeywell is in the consortium that runs the Pantex Plant that assembles all of the nuclear bombs in the United States arsenal...
It derives through the French word pancier, "breastplate", from Latin pantex, "belly". The word is used in English and some other languages as a loanword...
Narrated by actress Miranda Richardson 27 November Dismantling the Bomb, Pantex in Texas; START II in January 1993; Ted Taylor (physicist); eighteen scientists...
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