Workers Taped Together Explosive Pieces (Pantex Nuclear Plant)

AP/Yahoo ^ | 1-23-2004 | Matt Kelley

[null and void]

Fixed your typo:

Well... Given the choice of duct tape or dry wall screws WD-40, I'd say that they made the correct decision.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Some older designs (like the B-53 which was in the stockpile until quite recently) did not use IHE.

[null and void]

Odds are the "engineer" who wrote the stupid, supercautious, dangerous delay procedures never took one apart.

Which is *precisely* why I performed every action on every one of the thousand or so process specs I've ever written.

PS Anyone need a process engineer???

[null and void]

I seem to remember that there might still be one we never recovered off of Spain, and maybe another off of Virginia.

Mouth of the Savanna River...

[U S Army EOD]

Do it then write your procedures on how you did it.

[U S Army EOD]

I heard the audio on the crash crew on that one, "What's he doing now, look at that, what the hell, OH SHIT, come on guys, get'em rolling.

[U S Army EOD]

That was the B47 bombing run you are talking about.

[null and void]

Exactly.

Although more typically it was document what the worker bees were actually doing, do it yourself, document any rough spots.

Then try variations to smooth the difficult parts. Figure out how to explain it in words (Grasping the part firmly in the thumbs of the left hand...)

Have the worker bees review the results, and make suggestions and corrections, repeat until the spec is accurate, concise and clear.

Simple!

[Jonah Hex]

"This is what you get for letting rednecks play with antimatter, boss."

[Lazamataz]

I wuz gonna ping you, but there you are. ;^)

[U S Army EOD]

The B53 had so much HE it didn't need to go nuke. I think I know what you are talking about as no HE buy that is getting a little to detailed. All implosion type weapons use HE the old gun type weapons used a propellent.

[Jonah Hex]

There's also one buried deep outside Goldsboro, NC, that happened when I was growing up in eastern NC.

[Lazamataz]

As far as weapons being lost to aircraft accidents, there are weapons in a swamp in the Carolinas.

Not any more. I have them all in my apartment.

For 40 million a piece, I might be willing to part with them.

[Tijeras_Slim]

There was definitely a switch in the types of HE used after some of the early broken arrows where the HE cooked off (in one case a B50 crash, I think 19 firefighters were killed). Of course, feel free to correct me if I'm fulla it. :)

[Jonah Hex]

What, did eBay turn you down again?

:-)

[WestTexasWend]

It was Wackenhutt Security. (I used to report in AMA, too)
Must say, though, that the form they made you sign at the ASARCO copper-smelting plant was almost that serious, and ASARCO security stuck to us like ticks...no doubt making sure us starving reporters didn't make off with any of the silver or gold by-product. :)

[U S Army EOD]

I think the crash you are refering to was in Morroco with a cargo aircraft where there were four involved and I think at least one of them did cook off. This was in the late forties. They had no concept of the spread of contamination and did not set up a hot zone. Vehicles drove through the contamination and spread it everywhere.

Most people don't know that the B50 (aka souped up B29) was our first SAC bomber when SAC was first organized. I am sure a few of them did crash with nukes on board.

[U S Army EOD]

Will you take Iranian money?

[U S Army EOD]

Did you know that Wackenhut is no longer an American owned company?

[U S Army EOD]

Did the provide good security or were they just wackenoff. Local joke.