The Blue Grass hydrolysate processing system achieved supercriticality for the first time in December during planned system validation.
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A brief overview of what happened at BGCAPP in November 2019
Operators sent the first shipment of Greater than 1 Vapor Screening Level, or VSL, mustard agent-contaminated waste from the Blue Grass plant to a permitted Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facility in Texas this month.
Project and program management provided information about changes being made to the Blue Grass rocket processing system at a public meeting Dec. 11.
The first principal deputy at the Blue Grass plant was selected for the position in November.
Public comments on the conversion of the hazardous waste permit for the Blue Grass main plant are due by Dec. 11, 2019.
A brief overview of what happened at BGCAPP in November 2019
Decontaminated projectile bodies processed through the Blue Grass Static Detonation Chamber are considered clean of chemical agent per U.S. Army standards and delivered to a metal recycling facility for further destruction.
Technicians used a mobile air-monitoring trailer for the first time to perform sampling during a demonstration of waste shipment activities Oct. 30.
Blue Grass team members participated in a waste monitoring, packaging and loading dry run Oct. 30.