Nuclear Weapons Assembly Plant On Lockdown After Security Breach

[TheSarge]

Reported by: Pantex Release
Friday, Jan 15, 2010 @09:31am CST
Pantex Activates Emergency Response Organization
   
The Pantex Plant has activated its Emergency Response Organization to respond to a potential security situation. The event occurred at approximately 8:00am.
   
The Plant is in a lockdown status and the situation is being evaluated in order to facilitate security actions. Pantex employees are sheltered-in-place.
   
Pantex’s response effort is being conducted by the Emergency Response Organization, a highly trained group of employees with detailed knowledge of plant operations and emergency response procedures. These employees represent plant functions such as security, logistics, safety, medical response, radiological assessment, firefighting, operations and public information.
   
The emergency responders’ top priorities are the safety of the public, workers and the environment, as well as ensuring security is maintained.
   
Pantex is also in the process of establishing communication links with various local, state and federal government agencies that will work with Pantex and communicate with the public during the response to this event.

http://myhighplains.com/content/fulltext/?cid=105821

[vesta111]

Reported by: Pantex Release
Friday, Jan 15, 2010 @09:31am CST
Pantex Activates Emergency Response Organization
   
The Pantex Plant has activated its Emergency Response Organization to respond to a potential security situation. The event occurred at approximately 8:00am.
   
The Plant is in a lockdown status and the situation is being evaluated in order to facilitate security actions. Pantex employees are sheltered-in-place.
   
Pantex’s response effort is being conducted by the Emergency Response Organization, a highly trained group of employees with detailed knowledge of plant operations and emergency response procedures. These employees represent plant functions such as security, logistics, safety, medical response, radiological assessment, firefighting, operations and public information.
   
The emergency responders’ top priorities are the safety of the public, workers and the environment, as well as ensuring security is maintained.
   
Pantex is also in the process of establishing communication links with various local, state and federal government agencies that will work with Pantex and communicate with the public during the response to this event.

http://myhighplains.com/content/fulltext/?cid=105821

Good grief, on a 1 to 10 scale what kind of emergency is this.?

Sounds grim unless this is all about a foreman comming to work drunk.

Thanks TX  for the heads up, I will be watching, wondering and not believe one word that comes from the Company.

[Oceander]

Oh, goody.

[Oceander]

Oh well, just two hunters who got a little too close for comfort.  Still, better to have hair-trigger security around a nuclear weapons facility, no?

[NHSparky]

ANY type of nuclear facility.  Even power plants have a similar security organization.

[Oceander]

ANY type of nuclear facility.  Even power plants have a similar security organization.

I wouldn't disagree.  I don't think we have enough Dutch tourists to spare since they're apparently the only thing standing between foreign terrorists and blowing up US-bound aircraft.