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United States: Incinerator Scheduled to Run Slowly for First Two Months Army officials plan to operate the chemical weapons incinerator in Anniston, Ala., on a probationary basis until late October, the Birmingham Post-Herald reported yesterday (see GSN, Aug. 11). When the 30-day “shake-down” period is over, state officials will “examine everything we are doing down to microscopic details,” said Mike Abrams, a spokesman for the Anniston Army Depot. “After we have proven to all the regulators that in fact things are working as designed and our data is accepted by the state, then we can start in earnest and work at a level that is safe and more efficient,” he added. The facility was expected to destroy about 15 rockets yesterday, Abrams said, but it could do more. “We might do as many as 40,” he said yesterday, adding, “There’s a strong possibility but there’s no pressure. More than 660,000 chemical artillery shells, rockets and mines are stored at the depot, 10 percent of the total current U.S. stockpile, and the Army plans to destroy all of them over the next seven years (Erin Sullivan, Birmingham Post-Herald, Aug. 12).
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