Special Nuclear Material Component Requalification Facility

Day in the Life of a Pit

  • Posted: Thursday, July 16, 2015, 12:00 am

With underground testing long out of the question, the health of the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile relies in part on pit testing conducted at Pantex. At Pantex’s Special Nuclear Material Component Requalification Facility, pits — a nuclear weapon’s heart — are probed for analytical data.