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NNSA Release: Pantex breaks ground for High Explosive Science and Engineering facility

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Facility will replace 15 obsolete facilities at Pantex with average age of 68 years

AMARILLO, Texas – On Dec. 8, the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) marked an infrastructure modernization milestone with an internal groundbreaking ceremony to begin construction of the High Explosive Science and Engineering (HESE) facility at the Pantex Plant.

Read full press release on the NNSA website.