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Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal FacilityThe Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (also called Tooele Chemical Demilitarization Facility) or TOCDF, is a military facility located at Deseret Chemical Depot in Tooele County, Utah and is used for dismantling chemical weapons. It was constructed in the early 1990s and began destruction of chemical agent-filled munitions on August 22, 1996. Additional recommended knowledge
GB campaignEach of the weapons listed contained the chemical agent GB (also known as Sarin)
All GB, totaling 6,045.26 tons was disposed of by March 2002. VX campaignAfter completion of the GB campaigns, the plant was converted to dispose of similar weapons containing VX agent:
Totaling 1,356.32 tons of disposed VX. The VX campaign completed processing chemical munitions on 3 June 2005, and completed processing containers contaminated with VX or residual products in October 2005. As of August 2006, the machinery had been converted to handle munitions and ton containers which hold mustard gas (also known as mustard agent, H, HD, or HT). Operations to destroy the base's mustard gas stockpile were expected to take several years. Weapons disposal processThe destruction process involves receiving the items in protective containers from a covered, protected storage area, and placing the items onto trays for insertion into the automated processing area. Inside the first automated area, called the Exposion Containment Room, explosive components are removed from the items and destroyed in a rotating kiln called the Deactivation Furnace System. The items then move to another automated area called the Munition Processing Bay, where the liquid agent is sucked out and sent to holding tanks. The mostly-empty items are then moved through a high-temperature (maximum 2,000 °F or 1,100 °C) oven called the Metal Parts Furnace, which destroys the residual agent so that the items can be safely disposed of as scrap metal. The liquid agent is destroyed in one of two high-temperature (maximum 2,700 °F or 1,500 °C) ovens called Liquid Incinerators. The products of combustion from the ovens and kilns pass through extensive Pollution Abatement Systems, which catch the airborne products as salts, and hold them in a liquid slurry called brine, which is periodically shipped to out-of-state underground disposal facilities. References
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Categories: Chemical warfare | Chemical weapons demilitarization |
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