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	Pantex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pantex Plant was originally constructed as a conventional bomb plant for the United States Army during the early days of World War II.
		The Pantex Ordnance Plant was authorized February 24, 1942.
		The deactivation of Rocky Flats necessitated the interim storage of plutonium at Pantex.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pantex (459 words)

	ATSDR - PHA - Pantex Plant, Amarillo, Carson County, Texas
		Pantex Plant is currently conducting perched aquifer remediation activities using pump, treat, and recharge technology to reduce contaminant concentrations to acceptable levels.
		Pantex Plant's current operations include thermal treatment of explosives and explosive contaminated materials at the Burning Grounds, which may release fluoride particulates to the atmosphere that can be taken up through microscopic openings in the leaves of vegetation.
		Pantex reported the maximum dose as a result of the release was toward the east-southeast direction.
	www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/pantex/pan_p2.html (17067 words)

	S/R 9: Plutonium Pits, Pantex & the Ogallala Aquifer
		Pantex took parts manufactured at other DOE facilities (highly enriched uranium components from Oak Ridge, plutonium pits from Rocky Flats, tritium parts from Savannah River, non-nuclear parts from several other facilities), added the high explosives, and sent the assembled weapons on to their deployment sites.
		In the meantime, pits continue to pile up at Pantex, in World War II era bunkers, in an area in which active weapons are also staged, and in which other chemicals and wastes are staged, waiting for use or disposal.
		In permit applications now before the state regulatory agency, Pantex is expected to be allowed to increase its discharge to the playa lakes and to increase the volume of emissions from the open air burning.
	www.greens.org /s-r/09/09-13.html (1319 words)

	PANTEX: Pollution in the Panhandle
		Pantex scientists claimed that the dense clay bottoms of the playa lakes would act as an "impermeable" barrier and prevent contamination from reaching the aquifer.
		On the Pantex compound itself, groundwater contamination is heavy-on the southeast side of the facility, explosives and chromium contamination were discovered over a three square-mile area that includes 1.5 billion gallons of groundwater.
		Pantex officials blamed the delay on "miscommunication"; meanwhile, TNRCC claimed that it too had not known about the contamination until the DOE announcement.
	www.txpeer.org /toxictour/pantex.html (1798 words)

	ATSDR - PHA - Pantex Plant, Amarillo, Carson County, Texas
		Pantex Plant cell 12-44-1 tritium release: Re-assessment of environmental doses for 1990 to 1992.
		Because the Pantex Plant was established in 1942, a significant amount of sanitary and industrial solid waste generated there was disposed of in landfills located throughout the facility.
		Based on the results of the investigation, Pantex prepared and submitted a closure plan to the TNRCC in June 1991; regulatory approval was received in December 1991.
	www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/pantex/pan_p4b.html (5349 words)

	PANTEX PLANT - United States Nuclear Forces
		Mason and Hanger, the prime DOE contractor for the operation of Pantex, was established in 1827 and is the second oldest engineering and construction firm in the United States.
		Pantex desires to reduce the radioactive decontamination levels of such facilities to de minimis levels,which allows for a much larger number of disposal or recycling options.
		Almost all plutonium at the Pantex Plant is weapons grade and in the form of pits, the plutonium assemblies that serve as a primary nuclear component of a weapon.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/facility/pantex.htm (3888 words)

	Dismantling U.S. nuclear warheads \| thebulletin.org
		Pantex is located 17 miles northeast of Amarillo, in the Texas panhandle near Highway 60.
		Mason and Hanger took over on October 1, 1956, and ran Pantex until 2001, when the contract was awarded to BWXT Pantex, an independent company comprised of BWX Technologies, Honeywell, and Bechtel that was formed solely to manage Pantex.
		In Pantex's Zone 4, about two kilometers from the disassembly area, are 60 igloos that routinely housed (for temporary periods of a few months) new warheads that were awaiting shipment to Military First Destination points for transfer to the air force, army, or navy.
	www.thebulletin.org /article_nn.php?art_ofn=jf04norris (1891 words)

	Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Continued Operation of the Pantex Plant and Associated Storage of Nuclear ...
		Pantex Plants primary LLMW wastestreams are composed of debris from demilitarization and sanitization of weapons components contaminated during weapons assembly, disassembly, maintenance, and quality assurance testing.
		Since the Pantex Plant EIS Proposed Action and the SSM PEIS No Action Alternative represent a continuum of operations, the impacts associated with any new mission or facility that could be implemented at Pantex Plant are discussed in the context of that continuum.
		The SandD PEIS is considering Pantex Plant for long-term storage of inventories of nonsurplus weapons-usable plutonium and highly enriched uranium (HEU), storage of inventories of surplus weapons-usable plutonium and HEU pending disposition, and disposition of surplus weapons-usable plutonium.
	www.eh.doe.gov /nepa/eis/eis0225/EIS0225_413.html (6589 words)

	Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Continued Operation of the Pantex Plant
		As Pantex Plant interim pit storage increases from 12,000 to 20,000, a person in the vicinity of Pantex Plant has a slight increase in fatal cancer risk (4.3 x 10-12) from potential aircraft crash plutonium dispersal accidents compared with the baseline annual cancer risk of 1.7 x 10-3.
		Structural integrity of Pantex Plant facilities, especially storage locations for plutonium pits, is extremely important to the safety of Pantex employees and area residents.
		Pantex Plant facilities and infrastructure are subject to numerous internal and external audits, inspections, reviews, and surveys on an annual basis.
	globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/report/enviro/eis-0225/eis0225_v3.html (18594 words)

	Pantex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Pantex Plant is America's only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility.
		Pantex Plant is a U.S. DOE facility operated by contractor BWXT Pantex and Sandia National Laboratory.
		DOE's Pantex Site Office is responsible for the successful accomplishment of DOE missions assigned to the Plant; provides program management; and is accountable for critical functional areas that could affect the security, health, safety, and welfare of the general public.
	www.dshs.state.tx.us /radiation/pantex.shtm (479 words)

	Comments on the Pantex Plant Radiological Investigation Report
		Reliable background values for the Pantex site for uranium and plutonium should be established and published as part of the new RI report.
		Recommendations: Areas where there is a plausible pathway for contamination, for instance Pantex Lake which received treated waste water from the Old Sewage Treatment Plant that was involved with at least one possible plutonium release, should be treated as potential radiation sites and fully investigated.
		Given the importance of the area surrounding the Pantex plant for agricultural production and the extremely long half-life of the contaminants of potential concern compared to human institutions, a calculation for a subsistence farmer family should be made and should be the reference scenario for all long-term calculations (beyond a few decades).
	www.ieer.org /comments/pantexradinv.html (6192 words)

	Pantex Plant Environmental Restoration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Operations at the Pantex Plant had produced a perched groundwater body under the plant that extends offsite and is contaminated with local concentrations of high explosives, hexavalent chromium, and volatile organic compounds.
		The Pantex Burning Grounds were the primary location for the demilitarization of waste explosives generated at the plant.
		The Pantex plant contains a system of ditches formerly used to drain high-explosive contaminated process waters to low lying ponds (“playas”) where the water was allowed to percolate and evaporate.
	www.stoller.com /pantex.htm (901 words)

	Texas Radiation Online - Pantex Plutonium Plant - Nuclear Weapons
		The Pantex site was established in 1942 after forcing residents off of the land by power of eminent domain, and started by loading TNT and other explosives into conventional shells.
		Pantex and the DOE often referred to the bunkers as high-tech, failsafe chambers which keep airborne radiation from scattering in an accidental explosion.
		Pantex is 8.5 miles from the Amarillo National Airport, where in addition, the Department of Defense continues to conduct Air Force training flights over the bunkers.
	www.texasradiation.org /pantex.html (4746 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		The Pantex Plant, a component of the Albuquerque Operations of the United States Department of Energy, is located in southeastern Carson County between U.S. Highway 60 and State Highway 293 seventeen miles northeast of Amarillo.
		Throughout the next two decades the resident population of Pantex fluctuated; it was 958 in 1966 and 205 in 1970.
		The Pantex Plant, administered by the Department of Energy, assembled nuclear and thermonuclear warheads from components manufactured at other facilities and was the site of pacifist demonstrations.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/PP/hlp6.html (478 words)

	Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Continued Operation of the Pantex Plant and Associated Storage of Nuclear ...
		Aircraft accidents are a concern at Pantex Plant because of the volume of local air traffic, the proximity of Pantex Plant to flight paths into and from the Amarillo International Airport, and overflights.
		Because this location is nearly centered on a line between Pantex Plant and Runway 22, aircraft using the VORTAC intercept the final approach course from the beacon in the vicinity of Pantex Plant and pass over it in a straight line toward the runway.
		Pantex Plant has some structures in Zone 12 that are considered structurally "super stout." No credit is taken for these "super stout" facilities in the analysis.
	www.eh.doe.gov /nepa/eis/eis0225/EIS0225_415.html (4762 words)

	DOE's Pantex Nuke Workers Taped Explosive Components Nuclear Plant Lapses Could Have Caused Explosion, Investigators ...
		Pantex officials also played down the risk, Conway said, calling the cracks in the explosive and the fact that workers taped it together a trivial change in procedures.
		Weekly reports by the Pantex inspector, William White, show several problems with safety at the plant, including flaws in the software designed to control the movement of nuclear and explosive materials around the site.
		Pantex desires to reduce the radioactive decontamination levels of such facilities to de minimis levels, which allows for a much larger number of disposal or recycling options.
	www.mindfully.org /Nucs/2004/DOE-Pantex-Lapses25jan04.htm (4703 words)

	History of Pantex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The capacity of the Pantex Ordnance during WWII was impressive.
		The Pantex site was considered as a prime location due to its central position in the US from a component and weapon shipping standpoint and its proximity to Los Alamos.
		Walter Stagg, the AEC Pantex manager, readily agreed, but securing the permission of Rueben E. Cole, chief of engineering and construction at the AEC Albuquerque Operations Office, was not as easy.
	www.pantex.com /ds/pxgena2a.htm (2737 words)

	Alsos: BWXT Pantex Plant
		This website features the Pantex Plant, the U. Department of Energy’s sole facility for the assembly and disassembly of nuclear weapons.
		Located near Amarillo, Texas, the facility opened during World War II when wheat fields were acquired and a factory built that produced conventional weapons.
		The website also offers links to several documents detailing the extent of environmental contamination from past disposal of solvents, metals, and high explosives components directly into the ground and contemporary efforts to accelerate the clean-up of affected areas.
	alsos.wlu.edu /information.aspx?id=1612 (145 words)

	Ken Schwartz
		Pantex was started in 1945 as a plant to load conventional ammunition shells and bombs for the U.S. Army.
		Pantex is located in Carson County, in the panhandle region of Texas.
		Land that is not used exclusively by Pantex for operations is used by Texas Tech Agriculture Research for agricultural purposes.
	www.ce.utexas.edu /prof/maidment/risk/lecture/schwartz/finalrep.html (2995 words)

	Pantex Technical Writing Workshop: 10
		This Compliance Assurance Office (CAO) Assessment was conducted in response to a management request to evaluate the effectiveness of the Pantex Radiation Protection Program in establishing and implementing radiation protection standards which meet the DOE objective of ensuring the Public, Environment, and Workers are properly protected from radioactivity.
		Evaluation of the management and line organization activities which are conducted and established to protect the workers, public, and environment from exposure to ionizing radiation resulting from plant processes.
		This program is designed to protect the public, the environment, and Pantex workers from an accidental release of radioactivity.
	www.uraweb.org /writing/nine.html (1164 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Politics: Braying for Plutonium
		As the NNSA tells it, the plutonium pits reposing at Pantex may enjoy a protracted half-life of 24,000 years, but their usefulness as engines that power nuclear weapons is limited to 40 to 60 years.
		By the time the DOE hearing officer summoned Doyle to the podium, many of the "Pantex Yes" folks (as an outdoor mobile billboard and their red-white-and-blue lapel stickers had it) had departed.
		She laid out the risks associated with Pantex's proximity to the local airport and to the Ogalalla aquifer; she explained that data in the DOE's draft environmental impact statement suggest that the proposed plant would expose its workers to radiation sufficient to cause one fatal cancer every four years.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2003-07-11/pols_feature.html (1711 words)

	Roofing Solutions with Pantex Roofing Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Pantex is a leading supplier of steel roofing and purlin and cold formed sections with galvanised, zinc aluminium and pre-painted coatings.
		Pantex provides roofing solutions, utilizing advanced computer controlled roll forming technology to consistently produce the highest quality profiles.
		Structual sections are manufactured from high tensile steel and are produced with hole punching, special notching and mitring to suit a range of applications.
	www.monarchbuilding.com.au /pantex_roofing_systems.htm (81 words)

	Pantex reports on extraction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Pantex's soil vapor extraction and groundwater pump-and-treat systems have stripped thousands of pounds of chemicals from soils and groundwater beneath the nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly plant, a plant official said Monday.
		Dennis Huddleston, BWXT Pantex's environmental restoration program manager, said the plant's soil vapor extraction system has removed 10,205 pounds of chemicals from the Pantex burning grounds since 2002.
		Huddleston said Pantex recently began a burning-grounds risk assessment that will assess potential current and future risks to human health from soil, air and groundwater at the site.
	www.nukewatch.org /media2/postData.php?id=860 (323 words)

	PANTEX Historic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Historic : Created May 01, 1950, the Society Pantex was registered in 1955 to the register of the Trade of Lyons.
		The fidelity demonstrated by a clientele of professionals and individuals to constantly renewed requirements, founded the modernity of the Pantex offer that rests on the major idea of a big durability applied to report qualité/prix.
		Our privileged relations with the best world textures, our considerable stock of raw materials, guarantee the on - measure " unit to the set, a total respect of norms and delays indicated in our estimates.
	home.tele2.fr /prolytex/eng_histo.html (111 words)

	Pantex to shift focus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Globe-News was unable to reach Pantex officials for comment, but Pantex Site Office Director Dan Glenn said in a recent interview that the National Nuclear Security Administration does not publicly discuss the numbers of weapons dismantled at Pantex.
		Earlier this year, Pantex officials announced they had repackaged 8,000 plutonium pits into new, safer storage drums and completed dismantlement of the final nuclear artillery shell in the U.S. arsenal.
		"On one hand, Pantex has had, in the '90s, this aura of dismantlement; on the other hand, it's now shifting more toward focusing on upgrading the remaining nuclear weapons that are in the arsenal," he said, noting Pantex is a possible candidate for plutonium processing work.
	www.nukewatch.org /media2/postData.php?id=662 (526 words)

	Pantex Plant
		Originally the final assembly facility for the nation's nuclear weapons, Pantex is currently the nation's only nuclear weapons disassembly and plutonium storage site.
		An old WWII Army munitions plant, the facility was converted to nuclear device assembly in 1951, when it was taken over by the Atomic Energy Commission.
		The Department of Energy would like to store as many of the expected 20,000 plutonium pits at Pantex as they are allowed to.
	ludb.clui.org /ex/i/TX3126 (141 words)

	Pantex Federal Credit Union-Loan Products
		With a Pantex Plus loan you will enjoy a competitive rate and the flexibility of borrowing from a pre-approved amount, as you need it.
		Request an application by calling the credit union or pick one up at the financial aid office of the college you are planning to attend.
		Pantex Federal Credit Union complies with section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act.
	www.pantexfcu.com /loan (866 words)

	Pantex Dressl Ltd.
		Right from inception the policy of the company has been to provide total customer satisfaction by offering quality knitwear in time.
		To meet the commitments of quality and prompt delivery, Pantex decided to integrate the manufacturing processes in a planned manner.
		With the assurance of their quality management systems Pantex Dress Ltd. has been assessed and registered against the following quality assurance standard/s on dated 2 nd October 2002.
	www.pantexbd.com (204 words)

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