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==Safety incidents== | ==Safety incidents== | ||
* In 1977, three men were killed in an explosion while machining [[LX-09]], a plastic explosive.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Relatives of 3 Killed in Blast At Nuclear Plant Lose Suit |newspaper= | * In 1977, three men were killed in an explosion while machining [[LX-09]], a plastic explosive.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Relatives of 3 Killed in Blast At Nuclear Plant Lose Suit |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 3, 1980 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/03/us/relatives-of-3-killed-in-blast-at-nuclear-plant-lose-suit.html |access-date=July 9, 2020}}</ref> | ||
* In 2005, the [[Project on Government Oversight]] (POGO) claimed that Pantex workers could have caused a nuclear explosion when they improperly applied too much pressure on an obsolete [[W56]] warhead while dismantling it.<ref name=ArizStar>{{Cite web | * In 2005, the [[Project on Government Oversight]] (POGO) claimed that Pantex workers could have caused a nuclear explosion when they improperly applied too much pressure on an obsolete [[W56]] warhead while dismantling it.<ref name=ArizStar>{{Cite web | ||
| last = Nesmith | first = Jeff | title = Watchdog: Firm nearly detonated nuke bomb| work = Arizona Daily Star | date = December 15, 2006 | url = http://azstarnet.com/news/article_f069a585-4e0a-51b6-830d-b7712c7d776d.html | access-date = October 5, 2011}}</ref> POGO said unidentified experts knowledgeable about the event told it of the danger. The U.S. Department of Energy fined the contractor running the plant at the time, [[Babcock & Wilcox|BWXT]], $110,000 for incidents involving the bomb, but did not mention any possibility of an explosion or identify the warhead. | | last = Nesmith | first = Jeff | title = Watchdog: Firm nearly detonated nuke bomb| work = Arizona Daily Star | date = December 15, 2006 | url = http://azstarnet.com/news/article_f069a585-4e0a-51b6-830d-b7712c7d776d.html | access-date = October 5, 2011}}</ref> POGO said unidentified experts knowledgeable about the event told it of the danger. The U.S. Department of Energy fined the contractor running the plant at the time, [[Babcock & Wilcox|BWXT]], $110,000 for incidents involving the bomb, but did not mention any possibility of an explosion or identify the warhead. | ||