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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 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 km 2 ) site 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Amarillo ...
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It produced its last new bomb in 1991, and has dismantled thousands of weapons retired from military stockpiles. Most activities at Pantex take place on 2,000 acres (8 square kilometers) of the ...
Pantex is one of six production facilities in the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Nuclear Security Enterprise. The plant has been the main U.S. site for assembling and disassembling atomic bombs since 1975. It produced its last new bomb in 1991, and has dismantled thousands of weapons retired from military stockpiles.
Operations at the Pantex nuclear weapons plant have been paused until further notice Tuesday evening as nuclear security officials monitor wildfires near the facility northeast of Amarillo.
The main facility that assembles and disassembles America’s nuclear arsenal shut down its operations Tuesday night in Texas as fires raged out of control near its facility. Pantex issued a statement online saying it had paused operations until further notice. “The fire near Pantex is not contained,” the company said.
The United States nuclear program since its inception has experienced accidents of varying forms, ranging from single-casualty research experiments (such as that of Louis Slotin during the Manhattan Project), to the nuclear fallout dispersion of the Castle Bravo shot in 1954, to accidents such as crashes of aircraft carrying nuclear weapons ...
Wildfires sweeping across Texas have forced the evacuation of America’s main nuclear weapons facility as strong winds, dry grass and unseasonably warm temperatures feed the blaze.. The main ...