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The Army had planned to destroy the remains of old
M-55 nerve agent rockets Friday - weather permitting.
But weather isn't permitting, and the Army has announced it won't
detonate the old rocket remains until January.
To be destroyed partly-incinerated fragments of rockets that were
drained of their GB nerve agent and burned years ago.
"We don't know whether there even is GB or not," Dugway spokeswoman
Cheryl Parrot said. "If there is, it would be resident, trace
amounts." To be safe, the Army is treating the material as if it were
still contaminated by traces of GB, she said.
Meanwhile, the Army has decided to hold information meetings about the
detonation, said Dennis R. Downs, director of the Utah Division of
Solid and Hazardous Waste. "There apparently is some feeling out there
that the material that is being detonated is the same kind of things
that Tooele Army Depot has been destroying, and that they're loaded
with nerve agent," he said. "That's really not the case."
The fragmentary casings aren't being taken to the new $400 million
chemical weapons incinerator for disposal because some explosive
propellants remain, and the propellants have deteriorated.
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