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    <title>Hazardous material successfully removed from downtown Summerside building</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-15T11:54:46+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. — The hazardous material that forced the evacuation of a downtown Summerside building on Monday, Dec. 12 has been successfully removed and the property reopened.

Summerside Police evacuated the property, located at 290 Water St. and commonly known as the (former) National Bank building, around 2 p.m.

In an email to SaltWire Network, Deputy Police Chief Jason Blacquiere said that the chemical was suspected to be a “small amount of mustard gas.”

A chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) specialist team from Halifax arrived a few hours later and successfully removed the material. The building was reopened to tenants that same evening.

Police have not released much information about the incident, only that the owner of the material was a tenant of the building and did not appear to have any ill intent. No one was injured.

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    <title>'It was like a concoction of mustard gas,' Godshaw Hill man says of hazmat situation</title>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Steven Powell, 65, was taken to Spartanburg Regional Hospital after a reaction to a mixture of chemicals erupted inside his kitchen.

“I was mixing Burnout for my pool, which we’ve done for 18 years,” Powell said.

Residents on Second Street were asked to evacuate or shelter in place while emergency crews contained the scene.

Powell said he brought the chemicals inside his house to mix them with water.

“It just went,” Powell explained. “It was like a volcano.”

Fumes from the pool chemicals quickly filled the kitchen area.

"It was so volatile,” Powell said. “It was like a concoction of mustard gas. It inflames the lungs and just feels like hell.”

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    <title>US has destroyed last of its VX nerve agent stockpiles</title>
    <dc:date>2022-04-28T10:39:20+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The US has destroyed the last of its 18,000 VX-filled rockets, meaning it has now eliminated 470 tonnes of VX, sarin and mustard gas – almost all that remains of the country’s chemical weapons stockpile that was once around 30,000 tonnes.

Venomous agent X, also known as VX, is an extremely toxic thiophosphonate. An oily, amber liquid, it is not very volatile. But it is readily absorbed through the skin and even a few milligrams can be fatal, leading to muscle paralysis and asphyxiation. In 2017, it was used to kill Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

The US produced most of its VX in the 1960s. Discovered in the 1950s, VX is more potent than sarin, the nerve agent that killed nearly 100 people in Syria in 2017. VX is banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and 98% of worldwide stockpiles have already been destroyed – though not always responsibly. In 2008, it came to light that the US had dumped 112 tonnes of VX in the form of filled projectiles and containers into the Atlantic Ocean in the late 1960s.

Since 2019, the Kentucky-based Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction plant has been working on destroying chemical warfare agents stored for decades at a nearby army depot. Initially, the plan was to incinerate the materials, but after concern from residents and environmental groups, the nerve agents were hydrolysed in a concentrated basic solution instead. The resulting hydrolysate is tested to ensure the agents have been destroyed before being shipped to a chemical waste management facility for further processing.

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    <title>Frederick Co. teen who tried making mustard gas in school faces criminal charges</title>
    <dc:date>2022-03-04T11:46:51+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A 14-year-old boy is facing criminal charges after a social media video inspired him to attempt to make mustard gas at a Frederick County, Maryland, high school on Thursday.

According to the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office, the teenager told deputies he watched a TikTok video on how to make mustard gas and then shared the video and a photo on Snapchat saying how he planned to make the chemical agent at Urbana High School.

At 8:30 a.m., school staff alerted a school resource officer about the social media post and that a student may have brought hazardous materials into the building. As a result, deputies were alerted and arrived with hazmat units from the Frederick County Division Fire and Rescue Services.

Students were evacuated to Urbana Middle School and into school buses while first responders did a full sweep of the building. The hazardous material the student brought to school was bleach.
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    <title>Pueblo is still home to nearly 200,000 mustard gas weapons from WWII. Workers have started dismantling the last of them.</title>
    <dc:date>2022-02-26T12:12:40+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A U.S. Department of Defense facility near Pueblo charged with destroying many of the military’s last remaining chemical weapons is heading into the final stages of its yearslong effort.

The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant began disposing of its final stockpile of about 97,000 mustard gas-containing mortar rounds last Saturday. It also has about 92,000 artillery shells left to dismantle.

Since starting destruction operations in 2016, the facility 15 miles east of Pueblo has destroyed more than 600,000 artillery shells — or about 80 percent of its supply — of World War II-era munitions assembled as a potential response to expected chemical weapons use by Nazi Germany. The war with Germany ended without the use of such weapons. 

In the 1950s, an enormous supply of shells and mortar rounds was transported by train from the Army’s Rocky Mountain Arsenal site in Commerce City to the depot near Pueblo that now houses the plant. 

Walton Levi, the government’s site project manager, said the remaining mortar shells require a different method of disposal from what’s been used at the facility so far. Whereas the plant’s fire extinguisher-sized artillery shells are carefully disassembled with the help of two large, yellow robotic arms, the mortar shells are placed inside a so-called Static Detonation Chamber, where they are intentionally exploded.

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    <title>Cleanup Complete At WWI Chemical Weapons Dump In D.C.’s Spring Valley – DCist</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-27T12:46:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At the beginning of World War I, the couple dozen students attending American University suddenly found themselves shunted off campus, their classes held at professors’ houses, while more than 1,000 chemists  and engineers flocked to what was then rural acreage in a sparsely developed corner of the District. Their mission: to develop and test deadly chemical weapons, including mustard gas.

Now, the most contaminated site from that era has been cleaned up, after two decades of work by the Army Corps of Engineers. The site, at 4825 Glenbrook Rd., NW, was one of the locations where chemicals and debris were dumped when the labs were dismantled after the war.

Amidst multi-million-dollar mansions on a leafy street in Spring Valley, the Army Corps set up a massive barn-like structure, 80 ft. long by 60 ft. wide, to prevent chemical agents from escaping while crews wearing full hazmat suits and oxygen tanks excavated the site by hand. At this one property, workers unearthed 556 “munition items,” 23 of which were filled with chemical agent, as well as 53 sealed glass containers of chemical agent. They also found and disposed of 2,139 pounds of laboratory debris and 7,500 tons of contaminated soil.

Six different chemical agents used only in warfare were unearthed at the Glenbrook Rd. property, including white phosphorous, arsenic trichloride, and magnesium arsenide. Arsine, a deadly gas, was found weaponized in 75 mm projectiles.

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    <title>Chemical weapons dumped after World War II are polluting Baltic Sea</title>
    <dc:date>2020-09-25T11:26:00+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Mustard gas and other agents in chemical weapons dumped after World War II are polluting the Baltic Sea’s underwater sediment.

Researchers found traces of arsenic-containing agents and mustard gas products in sediment and fish near three weapon disposal sites.


These agents “can actually contaminate the Baltic ecosystem, which is kind of fragile,” says Jacek Bełdowski, a professor at the Institute of Oceanology at the Polish Academy of Sciences and one of the coauthors of the study (Mar. Environ. Res. 2020, DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.105112).


The warfare agents came from the German Army in WWII. After Germany’s defeat, the Soviet Union dumped the captured chemical weapons in the Baltic Sea. The British and Americans did the same in the Skagerrak strait, between Norway and Sweden to the north and Denmark to the south. At the time, this disposal method was deemed less hazardous than burning the materials.

The authors of the study say the Soviets jettisoned at least 50,000 metric tons (t) of German weapons into the Baltic Sea, some 15,000 t of which contained chemical agents. Previous reports concluded that most of these munitions probably had sunk into mud on the seafloor and were largely harmless.

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    <title>Decontamination of VX with Acid-Activated Clay</title>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The decontamination ability of montmorillonite-based acid-activated clay (AACL) toward the chemical warfare agents (CWAs) mustard gas (HD), soman (GD), and venomous agent X (VX) is evaluated using gas chromatography–flame ionization detection (GC-FID) with internal standard calibration. Unlike HD and GD, VX rapidly reacts with AACL; 99.6% of VX is chemically decontaminated within 10 min. Further investigation into the interaction of AACL with VX revealed that the initial rate of the reaction depends on the concentration of acid on the surface of AACL (the measured pH), suggesting that the formation of a protonated VX intermediate is involved. This reaction occurs in a stoichiometric manner, and surface-bound degradation products are identified and estimated using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM-EDS). The optimized weight ratio of AACL to VX is 40:1 when the reaction time is fixed at 10 min. AACL also shows good adsorption capacity for CWAs, with more than 96% of CWAs physically removed by adsorption. These results not only suggest an essential design strategy for the development of reactive sorbents for VX but also indicate that AACL, which can be mass-produced at low cost, can be regarded as a promising material for immediate decontamination of CWAs.

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    <title>Chemical Weapon Destruction To Begin At Army Depot</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-22T11:40:19+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[RICHMOND, Ky. (LEX 18)– The project to destroy the stockpile of chemical weapons housed at the Bluegrass Army Depot will begin soon.

The stockpile has been stored there since World War II.

Since the 1940s, stockpiles of chemical weapons such as mustard gas, sarin, and VX have been stored in igloos like the one at Bluegrass Army Depot. In a few months, the workers there will begin to remove the weapons and take them to newly constructed plants where they’ll be neutralized. They’ll start first with mustard gas in June.

“After being involved with the program for approximately 35 years, I’m pretty excited about how close we are now,” said Craig Williams, a member of the Governor’s Commission on Chemical Weapons Disposal.

The destruction requires precautions at every step to make sure it’s done safely. Williams, who works in many ways as a voice for the local community on the project, says he is impressed by what he’s seen.

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    <title>Fire burns at Pueblo chemical depot; no danger to weapons stockpile</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-25T12:27:34+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[PUEBLO, Colo. — Army officials say a fire is burning at a southern Colorado depot about four miles from where old chemical weapons are stockpiled.


Photo: Pueblo County Sheriff
Pueblo Chemical Depot spokesman Aaron Clementi said Saturday the fire has destroyed two buildings and damaged a third but is about 90 percent contained.

Clementi says there is no danger to the 780,000 shells filled with liquid mustard agent in the chemical area 4 miles to the north.

The weapons, which can maim or kill by blistering skin, scarring eyes and inflaming airways, are being stockpiled at the depot until they can be safely destroyed.

The fire broke out Saturday afternoon. KKTV reports that it is spewing a thick plume of smoke that is visible from Pueblo.

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    <dc:date>2018-03-24T13:38:23+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Army wants to change the way it destroys part of its huge stockpile of obsolete chemical weapons in Colorado, but some people worry that could increase the chances of contamination escaping into the air.

The Army’s Pueblo Chemical Depot is eradicating 780,000 shells filled with thick liquid mustard agent — many of them dating to the Cold War — under an international treaty banning chemical weapons.

The Army built a highly automated, $4.5 billion plant to do the work, but officials said this week they want to buy two closed detonation chambers for about $30 million each to destroy 97,000 problematic mortar shells. The plant has also experienced a series of setbacks and is currently conducting limited operations while other problems are fixed.

It still has to complete an environmental impact assessment and get state and local permits before proceeding.

The mustard agent in the shells is believed to be contaminated with more rust than originally expected, making it difficult for the plant’s robotic equipment to open them, said Greg Mohrman, the project site manager.

If the shells don’t open cleanly, workers would have to don protective suits and intervene, Mohrman said. That increases the risk they would be exposed to mustard agent, which can maim or kill by blistering skin, scarring eyes and inflaming airways.

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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[PUEBLO – The U.S. Army plans to start trucking hazardous wastewater next week from a chemical weapons destruction plant in Colorado to an incineration facility in Texas because the Colorado plant isn’t yet fully operational, officials said Friday.

The incinerator in Port Arthur, Texas, will destroy about 250,000 gallons of wastewater from the Pueblo Chemical Depot. Shipments from the southern Colorado plant to Port Arthur, about a 1,400-mile trek, could start Monday, depot spokesman Tom Schultz said.

Pueblo is dismantling and neutralizing shells containing mustard agent but can’t yet process all of the wastewater. The shipments to Texas are expected to take a month to complete, and by that time, the Pueblo depot should be able to process all wastewater on-site.

The waste is primarily saltwater but could irritate human skin because it contains caustic chemicals used to neutralize the mustard. Officials say the wastewater contains no mustard agent.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[WALTON (WBNG) -- The Village of Walton Mayor says the chemical gas leak at the Wastewater Treatment Plant Thursday could have been prevented.

The mayor says a truck driver emptied the contents of his truck into the wrong tank.  It made for a very dangerous mix.

"Everything is back to normal like it was before," Mayor Edward Snow said."Slack Chemical, the company that makes the delivery every Thursday, they were delivering polyaluminum chloride, and by mistake it was put in with chlorine."

12 News reached out to Slack Chemical.  Company officials tell us the situation is under investigation and they hope to release a statement next week.

During the ordeal, a local day care had to be evacuated and all afterschool activities were canceled for Walton Central School District.

 But Snow says the situation could have been worse.

"If you see what happens overseas Libya and all of that, this can have the same kind of effect as mustard gas.  If we would have had a windy day and more would let up in the atmosphere, we could have a lot of fatalities in the area," Snow said.

“From what I understand the off gassing was a chlorine gas and if you did the wrong things with it it could explode,” Walton Fire Chief Bob Brown said.

Thankfully, no serious injuries were reported. But one person did seek medical help after inhaling the mixture.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2017-04-01T12:58:07+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[DENVER — The U.S. Army is considering trucking hazardous wastewater from a chemical weapons destruction plant in Colorado to another state because the plant isn't yet fully operational.

Incinerators in Texas and Arkansas are under consideration to destroy up to 250,000 gallons of wastewater from the Pueblo Chemical Depot, but officials couldn't immediately provide the exact locations Thursday.

The southern Colorado plant is dismantling and neutralizing shells containing mustard agent but can't yet process the wastewater and is running out of storage space, officials said.

The waste is primarily saltwater but could irritate human skin because it contains a caustic chemical used to neutralize the mustard. Officials said the wastewater contains no mustard agent.

The highly automated, $4.5 billion plant is destroying about 780,000 shells filled with 2,500 tons of mustard agent under an international treaty. It's the largest remaining stockpile of chemical weapons in the U.S.

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    <title>In southeastern Colorado, robots carefully disarm WWII-era chemical weapons</title>
    <dc:date>2017-02-27T12:31:58+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[PUEBLO, Colorado—On the dry, windswept plains of southeastern Colorado, a military checkpoint protects a vast field of igloos built with corrugated steel, covered with a thick layer of Earth, and fitted with thick, blast-resistant doors. The walls of the igloos keep the interior a consistent 51 degrees Fahrenheit whether it's in the heat of summer or the depths of winter, and the high-altitude air has little enough water in it that corrosion-causing moisture is an afterthought.

These mounds are carefully spaced to prevent an explosion in one igloo from triggering explosions in neighboring igloos. That's because inside, the US military stores a stockpile of 780,000 unused WWII-era munitions, filled with dangerous and deadly viscous sulfur mustard agent. This stockpile of chemical weapons was shipped to these igloos in the 1950s. They have been carefully guarded since then.

Not all chemical weapons in the US were so carefully handled. Between 1967 and 1970, the US military disposed of "thousands of tons" of chemical weapons by simply dumping them in the ocean as part of Operation CHASE (Cut Holes And Sink 'Em), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In fact, the military dumped 16,000 bombs, each containing 73 pounds of chemical agent, in the ocean at a site five miles south of Pearl Harbor after World War II. In 2010, research teams decided not to move the sunken munitions because moving the bombs would be more risky than leaving them where they are.

In 1972, Congress outlawed dumping chemical weapons in the ocean, and in 1997, the US became a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, an international treaty to reduce chemical weapons stockpiles. Without the option of simply dumping weaponized chemicals into the sea, incineration or neutralization was the choice on the table. Destruction plants were built around the country to reduce stockpiles. After years of planning, construction of the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) began.

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    <title>Wastewater leaks at plant destroying chemical weapons</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-03T11:30:32+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — About 450 gallons of hazardous wastewater leaked from a tank at a Colorado plant where chemical weapons are being destroyed, the Army said Friday.
There was no threat to workers or nearby communities from the Nov. 20 spill at the Pueblo Chemical Depot, officials said. The wastewater was confined to a containment area and cleaned up, site project manager Gregory Mohrman said in a written statement.
The wastewater was primarily salty water called hydrolysate, produced when mustard agent is neutralized with hot water and a caustic chemical, said Sandy Romero, a spokeswoman for Bechtel Corp., the lead contractor on the project.
The waste contained no mustard agent, she said.
The wastewater leaked when seals on a tank failed, Mohrman said. The plant shut down while the cause of the failure is investigated, and no startup date has been set.
The highly automated, $4.5 billion plant is destroying about 780,000 shells filled with 2,600 tons of mustard agent under an international treaty. The plant began operating this year and is expected to finish in 2020.]]></description>
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    <title>DA: No Evidence Juveniles Had Means to Pull Off Bomb Plot</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-18T12:31:13+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Humboldt County District Attorney’s office has decided not to pursue criminal charges against two 15-year-olds accused of plotting the bombing of a Fortuna High School assembly.

“To date, the investigation has yielded no evidence that either juvenile had the means to create an item that could be a hazard — one individual possessed approximately 2 grams ([less than] .1 ounces) of sulfur, a readily available legal product with a variety of uses,” a press release from the office states. “Further, there is insufficient evidence to indicate the two juveniles conspired to commit an attack.”

Both findings are in direct conflict with statements from Fortuna Police Chief Bill Dobberstein on Nov. 11, the day after police thwarted the alleged plot. The chief told the Journal and other media outlets that one of the juveniles was found to be in possession of “several components for making some kind of toxic chemical gas explosion devices” but were missing a “key ingredient” that police believed was stashed somewhere on campus. Dobberstein said it appeared the students were planning on making multiple explosive devices with a substance akin to homemade mustard gas, or sulfur mustard, to detonate them at an all-school assembly that day.

Further, Dobberstein said it appeared the students had been planning a “mass casualty event” for some time and targeting “when there was going to be a large gathering of students and teachers in one place.”
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    <title>Army Begins Destroying Chemical Weapons in Colorado</title>
    <dc:date>2016-09-08T11:47:49+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Army has begun destroying the nation's largest remaining stockpile of chemical weapons in an automated plant in southern Colorado.

Officials at Pueblo Chemical Depot said they put the plant into operation on Wednesday.

The plant will destroy about 780,000 artillery shells filled with mustard agent under an international treaty. The Army said previously it planned to start this week.

Mustard agent can maim or kill by damaging skin, eyes and airways.

The plant uses water and bacteria to neutralize the mustard agent. Work is expected to finish in mid-2020.

The depot has already destroyed 560 shells and bottles of mustard agent that were leaking or had other problems that made them unsuitable for the plant.

They were placed in a sealed chamber, torn open with explosives and neutralized with chemicals.]]></description>
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    <title>Explosion rocks Cantonment chemical plant, 1 dead</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-29T11:12:02+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Escambia County officials have confirmed at least one person is dead after a Sunday explosion at the Airgas Facility at the Ascend Performance Materials chemical plant in the 3000 block of Old Chemstrand Road.

The chemical that exploded was nitrous oxide, and did not pose a threat to the public, county Public Safety Director Mike Weaver said. The cause of the explosion was not immediately available Sunday evening, and no additional injuries have been reported. The investigation into the blast has been turned over to the state fire marshal's office.

Shortly after the noontime explosion, nearby resident Tamiya Jefferson stood in the grass across the street from her house, watching the mustard-colored plume of smoke billowing from the Airgas plant.

Jefferson and many other residents living in the Cantonment neighborhood were alarmed by the thundering explosion that shook their homes.

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    <title>Final preparations underway to destroy chemical munitions found on joint base</title>
    <dc:date>2016-07-08T12:01:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/news/local/final-preparations-underway-to-destroy-chemical-munitions-found-on-joint/article_74fe96f2-449a-11e6-b722-f33981245a7b.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[JOINT BASE McGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST — It's a little-known fact that the Lakehurst side of the joint base was founded 100 years ago as a munitions testing site for the Imperial Russian Army and that the U.S. Army Chemical Corps also used it as a proving ground and training site during World War I.

Base officials got an all too real reminder of that history late last year when two World War I-era artillery rounds containing chemical agents were discovered on a remote area of the base.

A 75 mm shell that tested positive for mustard was recovered in November and a "Livens projectile" canister that is believed to contain phosgene gas was found in early December.

Since their discovery, both ordnances have been held in special secured containers watched by armed guards 24-hours-a-day.

Now, after months of the planning and preparations, including approvals from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in the Netherlands, the rounds will be disposed of this month by workers from the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity without ever leaving the joint base's secure confines.

Based at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, the group specializes in storing, treating and disposing of chemical weapons safely.

"This coming weeks will be the culmination of all this planning and activity and collaboration, and we'll be destroying these devices," said Col. Gregory McClure, commander of the joint base's 87th Civil Engineer Group, during a briefing and tour of the state-of-the-art Explosive Destruction System set up on the Lakehurst side of the sprawling installation, near where the two chemical rounds were discovered.]]></description>
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    <title>Chemical-laden artillery shells found on joint base, report says</title>
    <dc:date>2016-02-02T12:00:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nj.com/burlington/index.ssf/2016/02/chemical-laden_artillery_shells_found_on_joint_bas.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST — Two World War I-era artillery shells that were discovered on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst late last year have been found to contain chemical agents, according to a Burlington County Times report Monday.

A 75-millimeter shell recovered on Nov. 23 tested positive for mustard agent and a Livens projectile canister found Dec. 2 contained phosgene gas, a base spokeswoman told the newspaper.]]></description>
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    <title>US envoy: Chemical attacks 'becoming routine' in Syria</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-24T12:32:43+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The U.S. envoy to the international chemical weapons watchdog warned Monday that the use of such toxic arms is "becoming routine in the Syrian civil war."

Rafael Foley was speaking at a closed meeting of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons' Executive Council, which was called to discuss recent reports by a fact-finding mission, including that a "non-state actor" likely used the chemical agent sulfur mustard in August during fighting in the Syrian town of Marea, killing a baby.

Foley said Syrian opposition forces were fighting the Islamic State group in the town close to the Turkish border. The text of his speech was posted on The Hague-based watchdog's website.

The fact-finding mission, which took and tested samples and interviewed witnesses, also said that chlorine likely was used as a weapon between March and May in Idlib, leaving six people dead.

After the meeting, attended by representatives of 38 member states, the executive council issued a statement "expressing grave concern" about the fact-finding mission's conclusions that "chemical weapons have once again been used in" Syria and saying that those responsible should be held accountable.

A special investigation team has been set up by the United Nations and OPCW to identify who is responsible for chemical attacks in Syria.]]></description>
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    <title>780,000 chemical weapons being destroyed in Colo.</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-26T14:54:28+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[PUEBLO, Colo. — Workers have begun destroying a massive stockpile of American chemical weapons stored at a former Army munitions depot near Colorado's ninth-largest city, blasting the artillery rounds open with explosives and neutralizing them with solvents.

Workers perform their slow, painstaking task under heavy security and strict safety precautions, which include constant monitoring for leaks, armed guards on random patrols and video monitoring by independent observers. About 780,000 shells and mortar rounds filled with mustard agent are stored at the military-run Pueblo Chemical Depot, and all of them must be destroyed under a 1997 international law.

"You can't be too safe about what we're doing here," said Thomas Schultz, a spokesman for the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant. "As long as things are dull, we're all happy."

Chemical weapons were once stored across the USA, including in Oregon and Utah, but the United States has been destroying the stockpile for years. Most were incinerated, but community concerns in Pueblo, about 115 miles south of Denver, and at the Blue Grass Army Depot near Richmond, Ky., delayed destruction until the military could develop new techniques to reduce the risk of mercury contamination from the smoke.


USA TODAY
U.S. to destroy largest remaining chemical weapons cache

The meticulous disposal process is a stark departure from how the military used to get rid of chemical weapons: either by burying them or dumping them into the ocean.

In 2004 and 2005, some chemical munitions were accidentally dredged up off the New Jersey coast and ended up buried in residential driveways. The Army apparently dumped the munitions in relatively shallow water, said Lenny Siegel, the executive director of the California-based nonprofit Center for Public Environmental Oversight.]]></description>
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    <title>Explosive end for Japan's second world war chemical weapons</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-10T11:12:01+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nearly 70 years ago tens of thousands of chemical weapons were abandoned in China by retreating Japanese troops at the close of the second world war. Now progress is finally being made rounding up and destroying all these deadly weapons that are still maiming and even killing Chinese people today.
More than 50,000 projectiles, mortars, aerial bombs, liquid-filled drums and gas-filled pots containing chemical agents such as sulfur mustards, lewisite and phosgene have been found scattered over 90 sites in China so far. Many of the discoveries were made during construction work. Chemical weapons have been found dumped in densely populated areas, in nature reserves and in rivers and lakes, as well as off shore. Due to their age, these munitions are rusty, damaged and often leaking. Some also contain explosives. Unsurprisingly, they have reportedly caused 2000 injuries and even a few fatalities.]]></description>
<dc:subject>China public discovery environmental bomb explosives mustard_gas phosgene sulphur</dc:subject>
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    <title>World War II munitions with mustard agent found at Deseret Chemical Depot</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-21T12:12:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[STOCKTON, Tooele County — Authorities have confirmed that 11 World War II-era cartridges discovered during the environmental cleanup of Deseret Chemical Depot contain liquid blister agent.

The 4.2-inch mortar cartridges were rusty and non-explosively configured, according to a statement released by the depot.

Technicians with the U.S. Army 20th Support Command Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High Yield Explosives used a portable device to identify mustard agent in the munitions, which since have been secured in air-tight containers.

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    <title>Notes from the Field: Exposures to Discarded Sulfur Mustard Munitions — Mid-Atlantic and New England States 2004–2012</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-26T12:15:02+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Before the 1970s, the United States sometimes disposed of at sea excess, obsolete, or unserviceable munitions, including chemical munitions (1). Chemical munitions known to have been disposed of at sea included munitions filled with sulfur mustard, a vesicant (i.e., an agent that causes chemical burns or blisters of the skin and mucous membranes) (2). Signs and symptoms of exposure to a mustard agent can include redness and blistering of the skin, eye irritation, rhinorrhea, hoarseness, shortness of breath, and (rarely) diarrhea and abdominal discomfort. Since 2004, CDC has received notification of three separate incidents of exposure to sulfur mustard munitions. In one incident, a munition was found with ocean-dredged marine shells used to pave a driveway. The other two incidents involved commercial clam fishing operations. This report highlights the importance of considering exposure to sulfur mustard in the differential diagnosis of signs and symptoms compatible with exposure to a vesicant agent, especially among persons involved with clam fishing or sea dredging operations.

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    <title>Depot: Malfunction, tiny leak contained</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-13T11:50:34+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[RICHMOND — A low-level leak of mustard agent was detected in a storage igloo, and unfiltered process water used to wash explosives out old conventional munitions made its way to the Blue Grass Army Depot’s general waste-water treatment plant.

Depot officials reported both incidents Monday, saying they believe no toxins were released into the general environment. Local and state environmental immediately were notified, they said.

A mobile monitoring lab detected low levels of mustard agent vapor in a chemical weapons igloo containing 155-mm projectiles Monday morning, according to Sheryl Lowell, spokesperson for the chemical weapons activity at the depot.

“The extremely low level of mustard agent vapor in the interior atmosphere of the igloo was discovered during routine weekly monitoring,” she said. “The leak poses no danger or risk to the citizens of Madison or surrounding counties.”]]></description>
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    <title>Boston Cellege explosion injuries student</title>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A Boston College chemistry student was injured when a beaker exploded during an experiment this morning, cutting her face and forcing the evacuation of Merkert Chemistry Center, officials said.

The student was working alone in the lab with a small amount of thionyl chloride -- a substance commonly used in organic chemistry experiments -- when it reacted violently, according to fire department spokesman Steve MacDonald.

The student, Hee Yeon Cho, received cuts on her face and minor burns on her hands, he said.

Boston College spokesman Jack Dunn said Cho, who recently finished her fourth year in the doctoral program, subsequently left the lab to take care of the cuts while fellow graduate students notified Boston College police. The university then notified the Boston fire department.

“This was a minor chemical reaction that caused the beaker she was using to break,” Dunn said.

Fire crews and a hazmat team responded to a call at 10:47 a.m., but cleared the scene by 1 p.m., MacDonald said. Throughout the early afternoon, some responders’ vehicles remained at the lab at 2609 Beacon St. in Brighton, but people were allowed in and out of the building.

After going through a series of showers in a mobile decontamination unit, Cho was taken to St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, where she was treated for injuries that do not appear life-threatening, MacDonald said. No one else was injured, Dunn said.

After the beaker ruptured, Cho put a paper towel over the cut on her cheek and then drove herself home, said Chris Schuster, 25, a graduate chemistry student at the scene.

Her return home complicated the cleanup effort: Crews also had to decontaminate her car and her apartment in Brighton, MacDonald said.

“It was more challenging because the student left,” he said.

A chemistry professor came to the lab and determined responders should dilute the thionyl chloride with “large amounts of water,” MacDonald said, and Boston College brought in a cleaning company.

It is still unclear what caused the reaction, he said.

Thionyl chloride reacts strongly with moisture and can be dangerous to humans if vapors are inhaled, said Lawrence Scott, Cho’s professor. The chemical can be used to make mustard gas and nerve toxins.

“Honestly, I think she was probably never expecting this to happen. This seems like a somewhat standard procedure,” Schuster said regarding the experiment.

Schuster said chemistry students at Boston College are required to take a lab safety training course. While it is uncommon for students to work alone, the department’s guidelines for lab safety do not forbid it, according to a document posted online by the Boston College Office of Environmental Health and Safety.

Still, researchers are warned not to work with hazardous or potentially explosive compounds by themselves, said Kai Hong, 26, another chemistry graduate student who was going to the building this afternoon.

Dunn said that to his knowledge, Cho, whom he called a “skilled researcher,” did not violate any safety procedures.

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    <title>us_ma: Mustard gas confirmed in fishing boat accident</title>
    <dc:date>2010-06-09T10:09:38+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[NEW BEDFORD — The fisherman who was blistered and hospitalized after dredging up a chemical catch suffered from rare mustard gas exposure, according to Edward Boyer, chief of the division of medical toxicology at the UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester.

UMass Medical Center sent blood and urine samples to a state laboratory in Boston, which made the confirmation, said Boyer, who is also a professor of emergency medicine at UMass Medical School.

"There have been five exposures to mustard gas in the United States that we know of since World War I ... that have been published in the literature," he said Tuesday.]]></description>
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    <title>us_ma Fishermen sickened by chemical catch</title>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[NEW BEDFORD — Four fishermen were taken to the hospital Monday after appearing to have dredged up some dangerous chemicals while they were fishing off Long Island.

The chemical is believed to be some kind of "nerve agent, so that's leading people to speculate that it's a possibility of mustard gas," New Bedford Fire Chief Brian Faria said at a news conference Monday afternoon.

The fishermen were aboard the ESS Pursuit, which was dredging for clams when the crews pulled up canisters from the sea. The Coast Guard, the New Bedford Fire Department and a man who was aboard the ship all gave different accounts of how many canisters were pulled up, although Faria said he believes they dated back to World War I.

Kevin O'Sullivan, 33, of New Bedford was one of the fisherman on the ship and described the canisters as about 1 foot by 3 inches, resembling a large bullet.

Dredging up these types of curiosities "happens all the time," he said, adding that the canisters were thrown overboard.

Jeff Hall, a spokesman for the Coast Guard, echoed him, saying, "There's places all over the country where they've dumped munitions in the past." And in April, another clam boat brought in a haul of active, World War I-era grenades to the Wright Street shellfish plant.

However, a fellow crewmember — whom O'Sullivan knew simply as "Kosta" — later said he'd noticed one of the canisters was "leaking or cracked."

Kosta eventually began to blister, according to O'Sullivan, who said the man had one blister measuring approximately 4 inches by 2 inches on his forearm and a second on his leg.]]></description>
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