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Chemical Weapons Processing at Aberdeen Complete
Workers at the U.S. Army’s Aberdeen Chemical Agent Disposal Facility in Maryland on Tuesday completed cleaning and decontaminating 1,817 containers that once held mustard gas (see GSN, Nov. 7, 2005). The second and final phase of weapons processing at Aberdeen, known as the Ton Container Cleanout, is now complete. The facility in March 2005 completed neutralizing the mustard gas once stored in the containers. Following cleaning and decontamination, the empty containers were shipped as nonhazardous waste from Aberdeen. It is expected to take at least two years to fully shut down the site, according to an Army Chemical Materials Agency release. “Our work doesn't stop here. Now that we have reached the end of operations, we will focus our attention on safely closing the facility in accordance with all applicable public and environmental laws,” site project manager Joseph Lovrich said in the release. The Army so far has processed more than 38 percent of stockpiled chemical agents and more than 47 percent of stockpiled munitions. Aberdeen is the first processing facility in the continental United States to finish its work. It joins the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System as the second U.S. facility to process all of its weapons (U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency release, Feb. 7).
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