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|OrganizationName=Pantex | |||
|OrganizationType=Executive Departments (Sub-organization) | |||
|Mission=To maintain the safety, security, and reliability of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile through assembly, disassembly, modification, and surveillance of nuclear weapons. Pantex also serves as the primary storage site for plutonium pits. | |||
|ParentOrganization=National Nuclear Security Administration | |||
|TopOrganization=Department of Energy | |||
|Employees=3300 | |||
|Budget=$1.5 billion [2025 FY] | |||
|OrganizationExecutive=Manager of the Pantex Field Office | |||
|Services=Nuclear weapons assembly; Nuclear weapons disassembly; High explosives development; Storage of nuclear materials | |||
|HeadquartersLocation=35.31178, -101.55752 | |||
|HeadquartersAddress=16181 National Road, Amarillo, TX 79120 | |||
|Website=https://www.pantex.com/ | |||
}} | |||
{{Short description|U.S. nuclear weapons assembly facility}} | {{Short description|U.S. nuclear weapons assembly facility}} | ||
'''Pantex''' is the primary United States [[nuclear weapon]]s assembly and disassembly facility that aims to maintain the safety, security and reliability of the [[Nuclear weapons of the United States|U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile]].<ref name="Gross">{{cite journal|last1=Gross|first1=Daniel A.|title=An Aging Army|journal=Distillations|date=2016|volume=2|issue=1|pages=26–36|url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/an-aging-army|access-date=22 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=About Pantex Plant |url=http://www.pantex.com/about |website=www.pantex.com}}</ref> The facility is named for its location in the [[Texas Panhandle|Panhandle of Texas]] on a {{convert|16000|acre|sqmi km2|adj=on}} site {{convert|20|mi|km}} northeast of [[Amarillo, Texas|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 [[Day & Zimmermann|SOC]], with [[Booz Allen Hamilton]] as a teaming subcontractor.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://cns-llc.us/about|title=About|website=CNS – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC|access-date=2017-09-09}}</ref> CNS also operates the [[Y-12 National Security Complex]] in Tennessee, a manufacturing facility for nuclear weapons components.<ref name=":0" /> | '''Pantex''' is the primary United States [[nuclear weapon]]s assembly and disassembly facility that aims to maintain the safety, security and reliability of the [[Nuclear weapons of the United States|U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile]].<ref name="Gross">{{cite journal|last1=Gross|first1=Daniel A.|title=An Aging Army|journal=Distillations|date=2016|volume=2|issue=1|pages=26–36|url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/an-aging-army|access-date=22 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=About Pantex Plant |url=http://www.pantex.com/about |website=www.pantex.com}}</ref> The facility is named for its location in the [[Texas Panhandle|Panhandle of Texas]] on a {{convert|16000|acre|sqmi km2|adj=on}} site {{convert|20|mi|km}} northeast of [[Amarillo, Texas|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 [[Day & Zimmermann|SOC]], with [[Booz Allen Hamilton]] as a teaming subcontractor.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://cns-llc.us/about|title=About|website=CNS – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC|access-date=2017-09-09}}</ref> CNS also operates the [[Y-12 National Security Complex]] in Tennessee, a manufacturing facility for nuclear weapons components.<ref name=":0" /> | ||