With the completion of VX nerve-agent M55 rocket destruction April 19, the Blue Grass plant has shifted into a three-month changeover period to prepare the facility for GB rocket destruction.
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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.
The facility responsible for destroying all the mustard-agent projectiles at the Blue Grass plant passed a final air-monitoring test to allow workers to safely open the building to install equipment for the next activity.
Blue Grass plant workers are decontaminating and decommissioning equipment associated with the projectile destruction system.
Workers removed a piece of the off-gas treatment system at the former Blue Grass mustard-agent processing facility in January in preparation for installation of new equipment designed for nerve-agent processing.
Development of the new Static Detonation Chamber 2000 site at the Blue Grass plant is rapidly progressing.
State and local officials visited the Blue Grass plant to watch a demonstration of the methods and procedures for loading tankers of hydrolysate Sept. 21.
Now that VX rocket destruction has begun, operators are moving non-contaminated rocket motors into temporary storage on the Blue Grass Army Depot prior to their destruction as secondary waste.
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell visited the Duncannon Training Center Aug. 18 for Blue Grass plant and Blue Grass Army Depot briefings and to observe the automated rocket processing equipment in action.
Members of two community advisory groups toured the facility used to train Blue Grass plant workers on automated rocket destruction equipment Aug. 4.