Workers at the Pueblo plant’s Static Detonation Chamber complex achieved three records as they surpassed the destruction of more than 40,000 4.2-inch mortar rounds in March.
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When munitions processing is complete, Pueblo plant staff will use high-tech equipment to safely demolish the buildings and equipment that demilitarized munitions and destroyed chemical agent.
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The Pueblo plant team is seeking approval from Colorado regulators to begin a campaign to destroy munitions that were rejected from destruction in the main plant due to worker safety and other issues.
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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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State regulators approved the full processing rate for the destruction of HT mustard-agent 4.2-inch mortar rounds in the main plant Jan. 20.
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Crews operating the Static Detonation Chamber complex at the Pueblo plant recorded the highest monthly destruction totals since the elimination of 4.2-inch mortar rounds began in February 2022.
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Pueblo crews began destroying 4.2-inch mortar rounds in the main plant using an improved technology Dec. 1.
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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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A recently developed device allows destruction of some 105mm and 155mm projectiles previously rejected for destruction in the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant automated destruction systems.
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Program officials propose using upgraded equipment that could accelerate safe chemical weapons destruction at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant.
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