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Crews Prepare Site for Static Detonation Chamber

Published: October 16, 2015 | Category: BGCAPP News, Construction

Workers direct concrete into the forms for the Explosive Destruction Technology facility foundation footings on the Blue Grass site in August 2015.

Construction is ramping up on the Explosive Destruction Technology (EDT) site, which will augment the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant by destroying the mustard agent stockpile stored at the depot.

The Static Detonation Chamber (SDC), which arrived in August 2015, is scheduled to be installed in November and December, said Steve Bragg, deputy plant manager.

To prepare the site for the SDC, workers installed underground utilities, site fencing and lighting, and placed the concrete foundation for the EDT Enclosure Building.

The system will use thermal destruction methods to destroy munitions in a spherical, fully-contained and armored, high alloy stainless steel vessel. The SDC uses electrically-generated heat to detonate (or deflagrate) the munitions, thus destroying the mustard agent and energetics, said Bragg. It is scheduled to operate from early 2017 for an expected 9 months.

The SDC completed Factory Acceptance Testing in Kristinehamn, Sweden, where the system was also manufactured. Shipping crews transported it more than four thousand miles across the Atlantic Ocean to the Port of Baltimore, then it was transported by trucks to the Blue Grass Army Depot near Richmond, Kentucky.

UXB International is also supplying the EDT Enclosure Building and is fabricating the building at various locations throughout the country. Foundation excavation for the EDT Service Magazine, the protective area where munitions will await entry to the destruction process, started in September 2015.

Main Plant Progress

Construction: Substantially complete
Systemization: 36.1 percent complete

Project updates include:

  • Continuity checks between the Facility Control System and equipment in the Munitions Demilitarization Building continue
  • Continuation of Laboratory Precision and Accuracy studies
  • Completion of various construction punch-list items such as cable termination and inspection, pressure testing of piping and caulking and sealing of panel wall seams and penetrations

Explosive Destruction Technology (EDT) Progress

Civil Construction: 63 percent complete

Project updates include:

  • Placement of concrete for the EDT Enclosure Building
  • Building and filling in of duct banks
  • Start of fabrication of the EDT Enclosure Building
  • Installation of security fencing
  • Installation of electrical/communication lines, equipment grounding and site water piping continues

More BGCAPP Construction Articles

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    From Tents to Today, a Year at the New Site

    Published: January 27, 2022
  • An electrician installs a temporary power circuit during construction work for the Static Detonation Chamber 1200 at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Oct. 21.

    Facility Prepared to Process Drained Rocket Warheads

    Published: November 10, 2021
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    Published: February 26, 2021
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    Published: December 18, 2020
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