Last VX Bulk Containers in Utah Destroyed

The Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal facility in Utah has completed destruction of 632 bulk containers filled with VX nerve agent stored at the U.S. Army’s Deseret Chemical Depot, the Salt Lake Tribune reported today (see GSN, April 23).

Under the terms of the Chemical Weapons Convention, the depot cannot declare its container destruction campaign complete until it processes 12 additional containers filled with VX hydrolysate, a byproduct of chemical neutralization.

Meanwhile, technicians on Sunday detected a mustard agent leak, which was confined to a storage igloo in the stockpile area of the depot (Dawn House, Salt Lake Tribune, May 4).

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