Re-post of one of the variations of my article that I’ve been re-posting for almost two years now.  I thought that perhaps with all the attention that Japan is getting that perhaps people might actually read this one. Note:  on my Emmaberry.org blog I did get some responses from people who may work at the plant. LOL.    I responded to them and then closed the post for responses because they were spamming me.  I didn’t realize at the time that when I closed the ability for them to respond that I also deleted  their comments and my responses.  Computer geekness is not my strong suit. Suffice it to say that these people were clueless regarding the potential for disaster that place poses to the nation.

If you follow the adventures of Homer Simpson you realize that Homer has been responsible for many near mishaps at the nuclear power plant where he has worked for several years, but his mishaps are peanuts compared to the real one that happened on Governor Rick Perry’s watch in early March of 2005 at the Pantex facility in Amarillo Texas.  Fortunately for Perry, his mentor, George Bush, was president of the United States and so the near meltdown at the facility (which would likely have blown half of the USA off the map and rendered the rest unfit for human habitation for generations) was kept secret from the American public for almost two years. It was made public in December of 2006 over Congress’s Christmas break.

The Pantex facility in Amarillo, Texas is the only one of its kind in the nation. The work that is done at this facility is the disarmament of nuclear warheads.  In March of 2005, in March of 2005 while disassembling a W-56 war head with a yield of 1,200 kilotons–about 100 times the power of the 15 kiloton bomb dropped on Hiroshima– there was a near-miss took place–a near miss that would have literally blown up most of our nation [Certainly Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico, Arkansas and Louisiana].  Most of us would have been dead in hours and most of the rest of the USA would have been rendered unfit for human habitation for generations (taking into account the amount of plutonium stored in pits at the Pantex facility along with the warhead itself and the resulting nuclear chain reactions). It conceivably could have begun another ice age for the entire planet.

Yeah, that’s another “Homer Simpson”  “cost saving” measure taken at the Pantex plant. They store the plutonium from the disassembled warheads on site. Thus, any accidental detonation of a warhead would result in a chain reaction explosion larger than any the world has ever seen. We really don’t know its full potential. It could possibly result in a new ice age for the entire world.

As for security at this place? Like the entire infrastructure of our nation which has been neglected for the past 30 years so we can give billions of dollars in tax breaks to the upper 2% and fund wars for Corporate War profiteers like GE and thus enhance the stock portfolios of our elected officials in Washington—the infrastructure (not unlike the levees in Louisiana) is also crumbling at Pantex, the only facility of its kind in the USA where nuclear warheads are disassembled. In January of 2010 because of the broken down fence around this facility, some duck hunters wandered on the property by accident. They set off an alarm at the plant that resulted in a plant shut-down of several hours until they figured out what happened.

The good news is that the alarm system was still working—but for how long? The bad news is the condition of the fence and the fact that it took the “intelligence” at the plant hours to figure out what happened. And speaking of “terrorist” attacks and “intelligence”. We should know by now that we have more to fear from white, home-grown terrorists like Timothy McVeigh than we have to fear from foreign terrorists.

David Grisham a fundamentalist Christian who burns Korans and harasses the citizens of Amarillo though a militant Christian Group called “Repent Amarillo” is a guard at the plant.

At Pantex, located outside of Amarillo Texas, they have David Grisham working there as a guard. Grisham is a leader of a militant Christian evangelical group who wear military fatigues and aggressively harass Amarillo citizens who do not agree with their narrow either/or, my ignorant way or the highway mentality. In the fall of 2010, Grisham attempted to burn a Koran in a public park.

Proclaim the Queen!

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