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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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    original on August 31, 2021. Retrieved August 31, 2021. "About Pantex Plant". www.pantex.com. Archived from the original on February 10, 2023. Retrieved...
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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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Amarillo for agricultural experimentation. Pantex reopened in 1951 as a nuclear weapons assembly plant. In 1960, Pantex began high-explosives development in...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Hutchinson County, Texas, United States. It was founded as Pantex, Texas. In 1938, Pantex and Whittenburg combined and renamed as Phillips for the dominant...
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    nearby Pantex Army Ordnance Plant, which produced bombs and ammunition. After the end of the war, both of the facilities were closed. The Pantex Plant...
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    otherwise only offered to American critical infrastructure (such as the Pantex nuclear weapons plant), military bases, the Washington, D.C., Special Flight...
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    Ordnance being produced at Pantex in Amarillo, Texas, United States, during World War II...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    storage can promote corrosion of the pits. The AL-R8 containers used in the Pantex facility for storage of the pits are said to promote instead of hinder corrosion...
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  • 2015-08-10. Retrieved 2024-06-09. Jim McConnell; Harry Waugh (1996-12-06). Pantex Plant Activity Report for Week Ending December 6, 1996 (PDF) (Report). Defense...
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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...
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    active service by the end of 1992 with the last shell dismantled at the Pantex Plant in Texas in August 2002. The weapon received Phase 3 authorisation...
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    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...
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    with Booz Allen Hamilton as a teaming subcontractor. CNS also operates the Pantex in Texas, the primary United States nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly...
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    daybreak, the Air Force retrieved the warhead, which was returned to the Pantex weapons assembly plant. The launch complex was never repaired. Pieces of...
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    Pantagi, Pantakind, Pantaltius, Pantap, Pantasur, Pantaz, Pantazol, Pantecta, Pantex, Pantexel, Pantezol, Panthec, Panthron, Pantid, Pantin, Pantip, Pantium...
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    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...
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    Presidential retreat Camp David (Prohibited Area 40 or P-40) Amarillo, Texas, Pantex nuclear assembly plant (P-47) Bush Ranch near Crawford, Texas (P-49) Naval...
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    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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