Equipment that will cut M55 rockets to separate the warheads from the motors for processing arrived at the Blue Grass plant Nov. 5 and 6.
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A Blue Grass Army Depot permit modification to allow off-site shipment of liquid waste resulting from chemical agent destruction is open for public comment through Dec. 14.
Rocket processing equipment installed in a new off-site training center in September is now being used to train workers.
The Blue Grass supercritical water oxidation system, originally intended for treatment of a specific plant secondary waste, will no longer be used.
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.