Operators began destroying rocket warheads drained of GB nerve agent using a new piece of equipment, the Static Detonation Chamber 2000, at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Jan. 27.
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Munitions handlers prepared mock rocket warheads in September for testing the Blue Grass Static Detonation Chamber, or SDC, units before their operations begin. “This test equipment is specifically made to closely simulate rocket warheads,” said Rusty Davis, deputy plant manager, SDC 1200. “It is used to test processing systems, to assist in validating procedures and
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The former chemical weapons destruction site in Anniston, Alabama, is assisting the Blue Grass destruction effort by destroying non-contaminated rocket motors in a Static Detonation Chamber, or SDC, unit.
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The Blue Grass team is applying lessons learned during VX nerve agent M55 rocket destruction operations to optimize processing during the upcoming GB nerve agent M55 rocket destruction campaign.
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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.
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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.
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Blue Grass plant workers are decontaminating and decommissioning equipment associated with the projectile destruction system.
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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.
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Development of the new Static Detonation Chamber 2000 site at the Blue Grass plant is rapidly progressing.
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