A public event to mark the achievement of eliminating 50% of the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot mustard agent stockpile by the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant has been canceled.
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The U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot is home to three types of munitions filled with mustard agent, and the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant is working to destroy the weapons in three campaigns to meet its goal of finishing by Dec. 31, 2023.
The first Static Detonation Chamber component was placed on its concrete pad Oct. 31 at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant, marking the start of assembly for the first of three units that will augment the main plant’s automated processes.
The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant submitted documents to clear the way for a final permit that will govern the treatment of the remaining chemical munitions stockpile in the main plant’s automated process.
Students at a local school, not far from the heavily automated plant destroying chemical weapons, are learning that robots come in all shapes and sizes.
The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant has destroyed more than 1,000 U.S. tons of mustard agent in the obsolete chemical weapons stockpile stored in Colorado.
The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant has prepared more than half its supply of 4.2-inch mortar rounds for destruction.
A veteran of Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives, will join the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in a new role as the program continues toward the goal of eliminating the stockpile of chemical weapons at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot.
The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant has received approval from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to increase the rate at which it processes chemical munitions.
The first Static Detonation Chamber components arrived at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant on Aug. 6 in a convoy of more than a dozen flatbed trucks.