Pine Bluff, Arkansas

Eddie and McIntyre, F.L. Improved Mixing. Granulation and Drying of Highly Energetic Pvromixtures Pine 8luff Arsenal, Pine Bluff. Arkansas 71602-9500 (1986). 

My grandmother had given me a nutrition book, and it had a section on people who are sensitive. From that book I got a referral to a doctor in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. What I was reading sounded like me, so I thought I d go and investigate because I wasn t getting anywhere with the doctors here in town. So a friend and I went up there to Arkansas, and that s when I was introduced to chemical sensitivity. He did all kinds of tests, and he said, You re very... 

Pine Bluff Chemical Depot, Pine Bluff, Arkansas... 

WP/F is manufactured in the Pine Bluff Arsenal in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Molten white phosphorus stored under water is loaded in munitions shells either by the dip-fill or dry-fill methods (Berkowitz et al. 1981). In the dip-fill method, the shell canisters containing the felt wedges are passed through tubs of molten phosphorus under water. In the dry fill method, molten phosphorus is added directly to the canister under an inert atmosphere. The latter method greatly reduces phosphorus waste (phossy water) and environmental contamination (Spanggord et al. 1983). 

Disposal Facility (TOCDF) in Tooele, Utah, which began agent destruction operations in 1996. It was followed by incineration facilities at three additional sites the Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (ANCDF) in Anniston, Alabama the Pine Bluff Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (PBCDF) in Pine Bluff, Arkansas and the Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (UMCDF) in Umatilla, Oregon. 

Chapters 1 through 3 of this report are based on an examination of activities at Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System (JACADS) and Tooele Chemical Disposal Facility (TOCDF), both of which employ baseline incineration systems to destroy chemical agents. Third-generation incineration facilities are scheduled to begin operation in 2002 or 2003 at Anniston, Alabama, Umatilla, Oregon, and Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The committee believes that many of the observations and recommendations made in this report are applicable to all demilitarization facilities, including those that may not use incineration. 

Most of the chemical agent and munitions stockpile is stored at eight Army depots in the continental United States at Anniston, Alabama Pine Bluff, Arkansas Pueblo, Colorado Newport, Indiana Lexington, Kentucky Aberdeen, Maryland Umatilla, Oregon and Tooele, Utah. A portion of the stockpile is stored at two overseas locations (Germany, and Johnston Island in the Pacific). Figure 2.1 shows the storage locations in the continental United States. 

Three explosive destruction system (EDS) units have been in operation since June 13,2006, at the Pine Bluff Explosive Destruction System (PBEDS) facility in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. One of these is an EDS Phase 1 unit (EDS-1) with a vessel volume of 0.19 m and a containment capacity of 1.5 lb (0.68 kg) TNT-equivalent NEW. The other two are the larger EDS-2 units, each having a... 

U.S. Army, RCRA pre-application meeting for Pine Bluff explosive destruction system (PBEDS), briefing on fhe NSCMP, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, April 22, 2004. 

The United States began to produce sarin in the early 1950s, and VX in the early 1960s, for potential military use production continued for about a decade.6 The U.S. munitions inventory today contains these two nerve agents in 30- to 45-year-old M55 rockets land mines 105-mm, 155-mm, and 8-in. projectiles 500-lb and 750-lb bombs wet-eye bombs (one of a family of eye bombs, which has liquid chemical [wet] contents) spray tanks and bulk containers.9 These munitions are stored at six depots within the continental United States (CONUS) and one outside the continent the locations of these depots are public knowledge.10 The six CONUS depots are near Tooelle, Utah Umatilla, Oregon Anniston, Alabama Pine Bluff, Arkansas Newport, Indiana and Richmond, Kentucky the seventh depot is on Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean. 

Because federal law (P.L. 103-337) prohibits the interstate shipment of chemical weapons, the Army had planned to construct similar incineration systems at the seven other sites. In fact, baseline facilities have been permitted and are under construction at three sites Anniston, Alabama Pine Bluff, Arkansas and Umatilla, Oregon. 

The development of a successor system, the MMD-2, designed to handle explosively configured materiel, has been suspended for cost reasons. Explosively configured materiel will probably be treated in a fixed facility to be built in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where most of the recovered munitions are currently stored... 

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