[CPEO-MEF] CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONTRACT GOES TO BECHTEL PARSONS TEAM

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This article gives a little more information on the processes the team
plans to use.

--Susan Gawarecki

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Bechtel Parsons Blue Grass, a contracting team led by Bechtel National
Inc. (San Francisco, CA) and Parsons Infrastructure and Technology Group
(Pasadena, CA), has won a contract to destroy chemical weapons at the
Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky. The project, which is expected to
cost about $2 billion over the next ten years, will involve the use of
neutralization and supercritical water oxidation to destroy the depot=92s
stockpile of blister agents and nerve agents. Joining Bechtel and
Parsons on the contracting team are Battelle Memorial Institute, General
Physics, General Atomics, and Washington Demilitarization Co., a unit of
Washington Group International.

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Susan L. Gawarecki, Ph.D., Executive Director
Oak Ridge Reservation Local Oversight Committee
102 Robertsville Road, Suite B, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
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