Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant - Construction Photos - August 2011

By Ms Kristen Szydloski (AMC)August 23, 2011

Supercritical Water Oxidation Building
1 / 8 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant craft workers continue erecting Supercritical Water Oxidation Building structural steel. The building will house the reactors where agent and energetic hydrolysates will be subjected to very high temp... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Control and Support Building
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Control and Support Building
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Current Project Staffing
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Munitions Demilitarization Building
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Munitions Demilitarization Building
6 / 8 Show Caption + Hide Caption – A Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant worker peers inside the corridor of a Metal Parts Treater unit, a piece of Blue Grass specific equipment that will thermally decontaminate metal pieces and projectile bodies by heating them to about... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Utility Building
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Laboratory Building
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The Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) will safely destroy 523 tons of chemical agent in rockets and artillery projectiles stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Richmond, Kentucky.

The technology selected by the Department of Defense to destroy the Blue Grass chemical stockpile is neutralization followed by Super Critical Water Oxidation (SCWO).

The Program Manager, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (ACWA), headquartered at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland is responsible for managing all aspects of the safe and environmentally sound destruction of the chemical weapons stockpiles in both Kentucky and Colorado.

The Bechtel Parsons Blue Grass Team, a joint venture of Bechtel National, Inc. and Parsons Infrastructure and Technology Group, along with teaming partners Washington Demilitarization Company, Battelle Memorial Institute, General Atomics and General Physics, is the systems contractor selected to design, build, systemize, pilot test, operate and close BGCAPP.

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