Assessment of Gravel Gerties Aging Management at the Pantex Plant
Office of Enterprise Assessments
July 23, 2018
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July 2018
Enterprise Assessments Assessment of the Pantex Plant Gravel Gerties Aging Management – July 2018
Assessment of Gravel Gerties Aging Management at the Pantex Plant
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Safety and Environmental Assessments, within the independent Office of Enterprise Assessments (EA), conducted an assessment of the Pantex Plant assembly cell building structures with a focus on the material condition of the portion titled the “Gravel Gertie” (GG). The roof on top of the concrete cylindrical structure (round room) comprised of gravel and supported by a crisscrossing grid of large bridge cables is defined as the GG.