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They are taken to a plant that manufactures nuclear weapons (in the U.S. the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas) where they are carefully dismantled and those parts whose materials can be reused to make new nuclear weapons are recycled. The chemical explosives are usually burned to safely dispose of them.

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