Blue Grass plant workers are training on high-technology equipment that will make the job safer when they start decommissioning the buildings and equipment where chemical weapons were destroyed.
High-Tech Robots Will Enhance Worker Safety at Blue Grass Read More »
A series of special classes and training are helping dozens of workers at the Blue Grass plant make the transition from operations to closure.
Safety Rodeo Helps Blue Grass Workers Transition from Operations to Closure Read More »
Safety remains the top priority as workers at the Blue Grass plant close in on the historic destruction of the last chemical weapons in storage at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky. “We’re not focused on [destruction] numbers, we’re not doing a daily countdown, we’re talking about safe execution every day,” said Ron Hink,
Safety Remains the Focus as Blue Grass Destruction Goal Nears Read More »
Experts preparing the Static Detonation Chamber 2000 at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant concluded an important test in early November, preparing for its use destroying nerve agent by effectively destroying surrogate chemicals, according to preliminary results. “This was the next step in demonstrating the system is capable of safely destroying nerve-agent filled rockets,”
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A team of specialists placed a 30,000-pound buffer tank through a roof opening in the former Blue Grass mustard-agent destruction facility March 14 to ready the building for the next chemical weapons destruction effort.
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The first boxes of non-contaminated rocket motors were transported via truck from the Blue Grass Army Depot Nov. 1 and safely arrived Nov. 2 at the Anniston Army Depot in Alabama to be destroyed in a Static Detonation Chamber.
First Non-Contaminated Rocket Motor Shipment Completed Read More »
Fifty percent of all VX nerve agent in the stockpile of chemical weapons stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot has been destroyed as of Nov. 14.
Fifty Percent of VX Nerve Agent Destroyed in Kentucky Read More »
The first two tanker trucks filled with hydrolysate left the Blue Grass plant Oct. 7 for destruction at an off-site treatment, storage and disposal facility in Texas.
First Blue Grass Hydrolysate Shipment Safely Completed Read More »
Following a brief pause in processing while local hospitals were at capacity due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Blue Grass plant officials coordinated with additional area hospitals and enhanced coordination with the Blue Grass Chemical Activity and the Madison County Emergency Management Agency/Kentucky Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program, or CSEPP, to ensure coverage in the event of an unlikely chemical-agent contamination or industrial accident.
Coordination with Hospitals Essential for Plant Operations Read More »
Blue Grass medical staff and personnel from several other departments recently participated in a drill to test and train response to an emergency in the main plant.
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