The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on Tuesday approved Critical Decision (CD)-4 for the High Explosives Pressing Facility (HEPF) at the Pantex Plant, NNSA Administrator Frank Klotz said Wednesday at sister publication ExchangeMonitor’s annual Nuclear Deterrence Summit in Washington, D.C. CD-4 indicates readiness to operate the facility, following the construction phase. The agency in 2011 began construction of the 45,000-square foot HEPF at the Amarillo, Texas, site to combine into one facility high-explosive operations that were being conducted in several different, aging…
