Anniston Incinerator Begins Destroying 155 mm Shells

The Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility in Alabama yesterday began destroying 155 mm shells filled with the nerve agent sarin (see GSN, April 25).

Weapons disposal was halted briefly this week as workers finished eliminating 8-inch projectiles containing sarin and reconfigured equipment to handle the smaller shells.

Elimination of the 155 mm projectiles is expected to take two months, project manager Timothy Garrett said in a press release.

“Our mission is to continue the safe processing we started with the M-55 rockets and the 8-inch projectiles and carry that forward to the 155 mm projectiles and beyond,” Garrett said. “We will follow the same, safe path that we established in our first campaigns, that being a slow and methodical start-up rate that ensures and reinforces the safety of the work force, our community and our environment” (U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency release, April 27).

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