The proposed facility would be on land that Texas Tech owns at NNSA’s Pantex site, the only US nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly complex. NNSA, part of the US Energy Department, through Pantex maintains the safety, security and reliability of the nation’s nuclear stockpile.

The center would have access to much of the 6,000 acres (2.4sq km) of university-owned land there to conduct wind research and develop wind energy technologies “that help resolve the key scientific challenges facing the industry,” according to a joint communiqué.

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