Texas News With No Permanent Home for Spent Plutonium, Amarillo's Pantex Plant Continues to Play Host KWBU | By Texas Standard Published April 25, 2018 at 8:28 AM CDT Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 6:05 Image via Flickr/Danny Bradury (CC BY 2.0) The perimeter of the Pantex nuclear weapons plant in Amarillo, Texas. The U.S. Department of Energy has been unable to find a state willing to host a permanent storage facility for old, radioactive nuclear material.