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First Modules Arrive for Blue Grass Explosive Destruction Technology Support Facility

Published: April 19, 2016 | Category: BGCAPP News, Technology
A worker signs for the delivery of three Outside Operations Support Facility modules to the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant April 12. This 12-module building will support the Explosive Destruction Technology mission by providing worker services, including protective-gear issue, changing and locker facilities and a lunch room.

A worker signs for the delivery of three Outside Operations Support Facility modules to the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant April 12. This 12-module building will support the Explosive Destruction Technology mission by providing worker services, including protective-gear issue, changing and locker facilities and a lunch room.

Three modules for the Explosive Destruction Technology (EDT) Outside Operations Support Facility, or O2SF, arrived at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) April 9.

The modules, manufactured by Southeast Modular in Leesburg, Florida, traveled approximately 750 miles in two days to arrive at the Blue Grass plant, said Tom Mitchell, EDT project field engineer, Bechtel Parsons Blue Grass.

“EDT workers will receive and store their personal protective gear, such as masks, aprons, gloves and eyewear in this building,” said Mitchell. “It will include a change-out area, lunch room and worker lockers and showers. The O2SF will also provide support for main-plant workers who will perform their jobs outside the Chemical Limited Area fence that will be installed around the destruction facility.”

The O2SF is outside the footprint of the EDT facility, but nearby so workers won’t have to go far, said Fred Barnes, EDT lead, BGCAPP. It will provide necessary support to the EDT mission and to the main plant.

“This building is essential to EDT and main-plant training and operation,” said Barnes. “In order for employees to do this kind of work, they have to be issued specific safety gear and have a place to change into and out of it and properly store it.”

The remaining modules are scheduled to arrive by April 22, said Barnes. They are being stored in the Highway 52 laydown yard awaiting placement and integration to form the 9,400 square-foot building.

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  • Workers lower a 30,000-pound buffer tank into the Blue Grass Static Detonation Chamber 1200 building through an opening in the roof. This tank will buffer exhaust gases from the destruction process of the drained nerve-agent rocket warheads before the gases are processed in the off-gas treatment system.

    New Tank Safely Lowered Through Roof

    Published: March 30, 2022
  • Workers pass a piece of plywood up the Static Detonation Chamber 1200 stairs in preparation for opening the roof to allow a new piece of equipment to be lowered into the building. The building passed decontamination verification testing in January, which means workers do not have to wear chemical protective gear as they prepare for the system’s next activity.

    Former Mustard Destruction Facility Passes Crucial Test

    Published: March 1, 2022
  • Demilitarization Protective Ensemble entrants decontaminate equipment in the Munitions Washout System room at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant. Since all projectiles have been destroyed, much of this equipment is no longer needed for chemical weapons destruction.

    Decontamination Efforts Begin on Projectile Equipment

    Published: February 8, 2022
  • An operator cuts up the buffer tank from the mustard-processing off-gas treatment system at the Blue Grass Static Detonation Chamber 1200 site Jan. 11. The tank pieces are being disposed of as scrap and a new buffer tank will be installed for the upcoming drained VX rocket warhead destruction campaign.

    Equipment Removed for Site Upgrade

    Published: February 1, 2022
  • Workers guide a stand-by diesel generator as it is lifted by a crane in preparation for placement on its foundation at the Blue Grass Static Detonation Chamber 2000 site Jan. 11. During operations, this generator will provide back-up power in the event of a total power outage.

    From Tents to Today, a Year at the New Site

    Published: January 27, 2022
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  • Blue Grass Mustard Munitions Destruction Schedule Accelerated

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    March 26, 2018
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    April 13, 2017
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