Nukewatch Quarterly Fall 2013

Since any wind turbine is a good one, we put this in the good news column. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has contracted with Germany’s Siemens Corp. to build a wind farm that will provide 60 percent of the electricity for its Pantex H-bomb facility in the Texas Panhandle. The Energy Department uses the complex for nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly. Sited in a wind-rich area of West Texas, the wind power is expected to save the government an average of $2.9 million a year over the 20-year contract period. Construction is set to begin in December. — Greentech Media, Aug. 6, 2013