BGCAPP Monthly Recap - September 2018 - Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PEO ACWA)

BGCAPP Monthly Recap – September 2018

Published: October 1, 2018 | Category: BGCAPP News, Monthly Recap

Highlights

Plant Construction and Systemization:

Facility construction is complete.
Systemization of the facility is underway and 66.4 percent complete. Systemization encompasses all the planning, technical work, training and testing activities required to ensure that once destruction operations start, they run safely and smoothly.
Plant operations are expected to start in 2019.
Notable project accomplishments and highlights:
- Proposed change to GB munitions processing schedule to put GB projectiles ahead of GB rockets
- Completion of Munitions Demilitarization Building smoke testing for air-monitoring systems
- Systemization and start-up activity on the Supercritical Water Oxidation Aluminum Precipitation System

Explosive Destruction Technology (EDT)
Facility Update:

EDT operations are expected to start in 2019 using the Static Detonation Chamber.
Notable project accomplishments and highlights:
- EDT staffing now 24/7
- Transport exercises with Enhanced On-site Containers and dummy munitions
- Heating, ventilation and air conditioning balancing of EDT Enclosure Building ongoing

Upcoming Meetings

Kentucky Chemical Demilitarization Citizens’ Advisory Commission and Chemical Destruction Community Advisory Board
December 12, 2018 at 1:30 p.m.
Eastern Kentucky University
Carl D. Perkins Building, Rooms A and B
4440 Kit Carson Dr.
Richmond, Kentucky

New to BGCAPP?

BGCAPP is a state-of-the-art facility that will safely destroy the chemical weapons stockpile currently in storage at the Blue Grass Army Depot near Richmond, Kentucky. The main plant will use neutralization followed by supercritical water oxidation to destroy the nerve agent stockpile, and an Explosive Destruction Technology to destroy the mustard agent stockpile. The safety of the workforce, as well as of the neighboring communities, is the project’s most important priority.