Amarillo nuclear plant to refine safety
AMARILLO — Pantex, the country’s only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly plant, has completed main construction on a $35 million project that is to improve fire protection at the facility.
The new construction comes after the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board raised safety concerns earlier this year about more than a decade of delays in completing improvements to an aging fire protection system at the West Texas facility, the Amarillo Globe-News reported Sunday.