Contractor Back on Line to Destroy Nerve Agent
From Times Wire Reports
An Army contractor resumed work to destroy a deadly nerve agent after pausing for nearly two weeks to replace degraded seals in a reactor used in the process.
Workers discovered the degraded seals May 18 in a three-way valve in one of Newport Chemical Depot’s two reactors, prompting the shutdown of both reactors used to destroy the VX nerve agent.
Several hundred thousand gallons of VX is stored at the complex. About 15% has been destroyed.
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