An Agreement in Principle between the U.S. Additionally, the State of Texas monitors the environment surrounding the Pantex plant.
The Texas RCP has an emergency plan that is used by a team of State agencies to respond to any radiological emergency at Pantex. Plant activities involve the handling of significant quantities of uranium, plutonium, and tritium, as well as a variety of non-radioactive toxic and explosive chemicals. Develop and research the high explosives that surround the nuclear components of weapons.