The Blue Grass supercritical water oxidation system, originally intended for treatment of a specific plant secondary waste, will no longer be used.
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Fifty percent of the mustard agent in the stockpile of chemical weapons stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky has been destroyed as of Sept. 1.
Technical experts in Alabama used fuzes recently removed from rocket warheads to test processing parameters and timing for the Blue Grass Static Detonation Chamber units in mid-August.
Technicians are installing new equipment to support changes made to how nerve-agent filled rockets will be processed at the Blue Grass plant.
Factory acceptance testing of the new Blue Grass rocket processing equipment successfully concluded in early June.
“We’re taking care of the areas of the plant that were contaminated with liquid agent or high-agent vapor, mainly the Munitions Washout System room and the Agent Neutralization System room,” said Carl Reagan, operations support manager, Bechtel Parsons Blue Grass.
Technicians are decontaminating and cleaning the Blue Grass facility following the end of the GB 8-inch projectile campaign in May.
“We’re taking care of the areas of the plant that were contaminated with liquid agent or high-agent vapor, mainly the Munitions Washout System room and the Agent Neutralization System room,” said Carl Reagan, operations support manager, Bechtel Parsons Blue Grass.
Workers are advancing placement of two structures on the Static Detonation Chamber 2000 site at the Blue Grass plant.
Operators tested the Blue Grass hydrolysate processing system using chemical solutions that simulate real hydrolysate processing during a 30-day shakedown period that ended in early April. This follows a successful system demonstration using water plus isopropyl alcohol in January.
The public has the opportunity to submit comments on new permit modification requests made for the Blue Grass plant until May 18.
A team of Blue Grass plant personnel performed the first sampling of GB nerve agent March 24 to meet treaty requirements.