Blue Grass managers provided information on the disposal of non-agent-contaminated rocket motors during a public meeting June 9.
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The system used to containerize and package drained rocket warheads at the Blue Grass plant is installed and tested. It was turned over to the operations team May 19.
Workers at the Blue Grass plant have been stacking, assembling and placing the various components of the detonation chamber for the Static Detonation Chamber 2000 in April.
Hydrolysate, the product of nerve-agent neutralization at the Blue Grass plant, will be destroyed at an off-site hazardous-waste treatment, storage and disposal facility in Texas, program officials announced March 3.
To support the Blue Grass VX destruction campaign, technicians converted more than 300 air-monitoring machines to detect VX agent last summer.
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.
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.