[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE, CHEMWEAPONS: Newport Chemical Depot (IN) deactivation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Newport Chemical Depot conducts deactivation ceremony
U.S. Army will vacate site

Howard Greninger
Terre Haute Tribune-Star (IN)
July 18, 2010

NEWPORT - After 69 years producing explosives, heavy water used in the 
production of nuclear weapons and as the sole site to produce the deadly 
VX nerve agent, the Newport Chemical Depot is closing.

The U.S. Army will officially vacate the site on July 18, but on 
Thursday held a deactivation ceremony demonstrating that all activities 
of destroying and removing VX required to close the depot, located about 
32 miles north of Terre Haute and three miles south of Newport, have 
been completed.

"As of today, we are over 74 percent of the way nationwide to ridding 
this country of weapons of mass destruction known as chemical weapons. 
That is quite a statement," said Carmen J. Spencer, deputy assistant 
secretary of the Army responsible for the destruction of chemical 
weapons nationwide.


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For the entire article, see
http://tribstar.com/bigstory/x1703930367/Newport-Chemical-Depot-conducts-deactivation-ceremony

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