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Pueblo plant destroys quarter of old chemical weapons

By 04/03/2019 | updated 7 years ago
In this 2015 file photo, an ordnance technician uses a robot to to handle inert simulated chemical munitions used for training at the Pueblo Chemical Depot, east of Pueblo, in southern Colorado. 

PUEBLO – Officials say about one-fourth of the mustard agent contained in decades-old shells stored at a Colorado chemical depot has been destroyed.

The Pueblo Chieftain reports the obsolete chemical weapons are being dismantled and destroyed at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant.

The acting site project manager, Walton Levi, said in a statement this week that a quarter of the 2,600 tons of mustard agentwas destroyed.

The Pueblo plant began operation in September 2016 and has destroyed 112,400 chemical projectiles.

The facility had a stockpile of 780,000 projectiles.

Officials with the Pentagon’s Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives plan to bring static detonation chambers to the facility to incinerate problematic rounds.

In this 2015 file photo, an ordnance technician uses a robot to to handle inert simulated chemical munitions used for training at the Pueblo Chemical Depot, east of Pueblo, in southern Colorado. 
(AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file)
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