Pantex [nuclear facility] on Lockdown (Panhandle, TX) [Update: false alarm.]

newschannel10.com ^ | 01/15/10 | newschannel10.com

[TornadoAlley3]

Panhandle, TX - Friday 01/15/2010

-- The Carson County Sheriff's Department says Pantex is on lockdown.

They wouldn't release anymore information except that they have a number of sheriff's officers at the nuclear facility, and they are investigating.

NewsChannel 10 will keep you updated as information becomes available.

[bvw]

That’s likely the first page in the Emergency Response folder of the PR-designate on the ERT.

[GeronL]

Maybe its Code Pink/Hamas in an alliance

[Vaquero]

Hunters walking in the field across from the nuclear plant.

“.....hey cletus....we are be attacked by guys wearin’ orange vests...”

[ZX12R]

Good grief.

[JerseyDvl]

Those damn right wing radicals killing animals are Napolitano’s #1 concern.

[spectre]

Google has the running tweets posted. "no danger, hunters were spotted".

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[TornadoAlley3]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfs3BJZxKkc

[GeronL]

are they hunting wild pig?

[calex59]

Nuke site.

[Concho]

Two guys in orange vests with shotguns,,,,

The wacko that set off the lockdown should be quartered and drawn. This is what you get when you have liberals in charge of serious business.

[ZX12R]

Thanks, I didn’t know about google posting them.

[wolfpat]

This could be hugh!

[PapaBear3625]

The U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration Pantex Plant is the nation’s only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility.

Perhaps title could be updated from "[nuclear facility]" to "[nuke weapons facility]" to underline importance?

[MrB]

The wacko that set off the lockdown should be quartered and drawn. This is what you get when you have liberals in charge of serious business.

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I was going to ask why a Texas business/utility had “gone p*ssy”.

[Concho]

No pigs there north east of Amarillo. That is all wheat ground, no cover. The only thing that they would be hunting in the fields at this time would be pheasants.

[Haiku Guy]

Fox News just said that the whole thing is about a couple of “armed hunters” spotted close to the facility.

Surely the White House will call for regulations requiring that in the future, all hunters must be unarmed...

It will make the whole proposition much more sportin'...

[Ramius]

Well, on the bright side, as unscheduled drills go it serves some function just to test the response protocol.

I wonder if that newest warning of a possible new attack doesn’t have everybody getting a little jumpy. Especially folks doing security at nuclear facilities.

[Marty62]

Better a False alarm than any of the other choices.

[Concho]

Naw, he’ll make it an Executive Order. That way he doesnt have to ask Congress. In addition they will probably close the airspace over it, because it is directly 1 mile off the east end of the main runway at AMR airport. Every time I fly in to AMR, I begin letting down right over Pantex. We wont be able to have that any more.

[Carley]

LOLOL....the danger of dummies tweeting.

Guess they never heard the expression ‘shelter in place’.