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Wikipedia article: “Pantex Plant”:
Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“The Pantex Plant is the primary United States nuclear weapons
assembly and disassembly facility that aims to maintain the safety, security
and reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile.[1][2] The facility
is located on a 16,000-acre (25 sq mi; 65 km2) site 17 miles (27 km ) northeast of Amarillo,
in Carson County, Texas in the Panhandle of Texas. The plant is managed and
operated for the United States Department of Energy by Consolidated Nuclear
Security and Sandia National Laboratories. Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC
(CNS) is composed of member companies Bechtel National, Inc., Leidos, Inc.,
Orbital ATK, Inc, and SOC LLC, with Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. as a teaming
subcontractor.[3] CNS also operates the Y-12 National Security Complex.[3]
As a major national security site, the plant and its grounds are
strictly controlled and off-limits to all civilians, and the airspace above and
around the plant is prohibited to civilian air traffic by the FAA as Prohibited
Area P-47.
History
Bunkers at Pantex used for temporary staging of nuclear weapons.
The Pantex Plant was originally constructed as a conventional bomb plant
for the United States Army Air Force during the early days of World War II. The
Pantex Ordnance Plant was authorized February 24, 1942. Construction was
completed on November 15, 1942 and workers from all over the U.S. flocked to Amarillo
Pantex was abruptly deactivated when the war ended and remained vacant
until 1949, when Texas Technological College in Lubbock (now Texas Tech
University) purchased the site for $1.[4] Texas Tech used the land for
experimental cattle-feeding operations.
In 1951, at the request of the Atomic Energy Commission (now the
National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)), the Army exercised a
recapture clause in the sale contract and reclaimed the main plant and 10,000 acres (40 km2)
of surrounding land for use as a nuclear weapons production facility. The
Atomic Energy Commission refurbished and expanded the plant at a cost of $25
million. The remaining 6,000
acres (24 km2) of the original site were leased from
Texas Tech in 1989.
The Pantex Plant was operated by Procter & Gamble from 1951 to 1956,
Mason & Hanger from 1956 to 2001, and Babcock & Wilcox from 2001 to 2014.[5]
The plant employed about 3,600 people in 2010 and had a budget of $600 million for fiscal year 2010.[6]”
The plant employed about 3,600 people in 2010 and had a budget of $600 million for fiscal year 2010.[6]”
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