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Weapons are our primary focus-although Pantex carries out the hands-on work, we provide guidance on how to carry out that work as safely as possible. “We deal with the safety characteristics of working with nuclear weapons. Ritter says that W-10 is one of the key interface groups with Pantex. “It’s interesting-while at Pantex, I worked on the other end of what we do at the Laboratory, so I had many opportunities to collaborate with the technical staff here.” “I’ve been part of the weapons complex for pretty much my entire career,” Ritter explains. After a short stint as a facility nuclear safety manager at Bechtel Corporation, he came to Los Alamos, where for the past four years he has worked as an R&D engineer for W-10. I just love how the art intertwines with the science of it.” A career dedicated to the Weapons complexĪfter graduating from New Mexico State University with a degree in mechanical engineering, Ritter joined B&W Pantex, where he worked for the next 15 years. “It really appeals to me at an engineering level. “There’s a ton of detail when it comes to forging knives,” Ritter says, eyebrows raised.
With his other hand, he uses a hammer to strike at the steel to sculpt what will become a custom blade for culinary use. He takes it out of a blazing hot forge and places it onto an anvil that’s secured to a tree stump by a rusted chain. Standing in his garage-turned-blacksmithhovel, Boyd Ritter of the Laboratory’s Weapon Systems Safety Analysis (W-10) group clasps a bright-red steel bar called a billet.
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