The Blue Grass plant recently achieved two major milestones, one of which is a first for the chemical demilitarization program.
The Blue Grass plant recently achieved two major milestones, one of which is a first for the chemical demilitarization program.
The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant destroyed more than half the mustard agent in obsolete chemical munitions stored for more than a half-century at the U.S. Army’s Pueblo Chemical Depot.
Full-scale chemical agent destruction operations at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) on the Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD) began Jan. 17 with the destruction of the first 8-inch projectile containing GB nerve agent in the main plant.
In 2019, workers at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant made significant progress in the destruction of mustard agent-filled munitions, eliminating hundreds of tons of chemical agent.
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 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.
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