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In reply to the discussion: Ontario's power glut means possible nuclear plant shutdowns [View all]PamW
(1,825 posts)Some of this was also performed at the Pantex plant in Paducah KY, and ORNL.
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Sorry but the Pantex plant that actually assembles nuclear weapons is in Amarillo, Texas:
http://www.pantex.com/
Pantex Plant, located 17 miles northeast of Amarillo, Texas, in Carson County, is charged with maintaining the safety, security and reliability of the nations nuclear weapons stockpile. The facility is managed and operated by B&W Pantex for the U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration.
The AEC, ERDA, DOE, and now USEC has a plant in Paducah, KY It is a uranium enrichment plant, the ONLY one in the USA:
http://www.usec.com/gaseous-diffusion/paducah-gdp
ORNL is NOT in the nuclear weapons business. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is one of the national labs that falls under the DOE Office of Science. The national laboratories that fall under DOE's National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA) which is a semi-autonomous organizations within DOE for research into nuclear weapons; are Los Alamos National Lab (LANL), Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) and Sandia National Lab (SNL). LANL, LLNL, and SNL are the 3 national security laboratories involved in nuclear weapons.
PamW