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ACWA Test Equipment, known as ATE, are dummy, inert training munitions painted a bronze color to clearly differentiate them from the real munitions at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant

Simulated Munitions Used in Training to be Destroyed

Simulated munitions used to train the workforce and the Pueblo plant’s automated systems and prove the safety of certain processes at the plant are being destroyed as part of the plant’s transition to closure.

Pueblo Static Detonation Chamber Team Sets Daily Destruction Record

Workers at the Pueblo plant’s Static Detonation Chamber complex achieved the highest daily destruction total in its processing history on May 18 as the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant approaches the complete elimination of the chemical weapons stockpile in Colorado.

Pueblo Plant Approved to Fully Operate Static Detonation Chambers

Pueblo plant operators received state approval to operate the Static Detonation Chamber, or SDC, complex at full capacity after months of environmental testing and analysis. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment recently approved the Multiple Pathway Health Risk Assessment, submitted in November, which estimates potential risks and hazards to human health and the …

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Pueblo Plant Preparing to Destroy Mortar Rounds

Cavity Access Machines, often called CAMs, inside the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant were upgraded to allow for efficient destruction of 4.2-inch mortar rounds containing mustard agent. “The addition of the ICAMs allows PCAPP to process mortars rounds in the main plant simultaneously with destruction operations at the Static Detonation Chamber complex,” said Walton Levi, …

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