Highlights
Plant Construction and Systemization:
- Facility construction is complete.
- Systemization of the facility is underway and 70 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.
- Chemical agent destruction operations are expected to start in 2019.
- Notable project accomplishments and highlights:
- Government Shift Representatives move to 24/7 schedule
- Start of blood draws and mask fittings for plant workers
- Hazard analysis reviews of major process systems
Explosive Destruction Technology (EDT)
Facility Update:
- EDT operations are expected to start in 2019 using the Static Detonation Chamber.
- Notable project accomplishments and highlights:
- System demonstrations for seven sub-systems between August and December
- Staffing for operations completed in September
- Transport exercises with Enhanced On-site Containers and dummy munitions
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.
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