Radford Army Ammunition Plant

M Continuous Automated Cannon PropellantFacility, Radford Army Ammunition Plant, Radford, Va., 1970. 

Ibid, Vol 18, Radford Army Ammunition Plant 19) Ibid, Vol 19, Ravenna Army Ammunition Plant 20) Ibid, Vol 20, River-bank Army Ammunition Plant 21) Ibid,... 

The Hercules continuous TNT process is the basis for three continuous TNT lines which went into operation at the Radford Army Ammunition Plant in Virginia in 1968. The lines were designed by CIL and represent improvements... 

The most recent major expln in a US TNT plant occurred in May 1974 at the Radford Army Ammunition Plant. The accident completely destroyed one of the three continuous nitration lines at the plant. According to the AMC News, Sept 1974, the investigation board reported that an operator inadvertently introduced a 5 to 6-foot rubber hose to clean out unwanted material that had collected in a transfer line leading to the nitrator, when the hose was pulled from his hands into the nitrator. This resulted in a rapid temp rise and subsequent explosion. The hose was commonly used in this manner . The material causing the blockage in the transfer line was believed to be an oxidation product of TNT, 2,2 -dicarboxy-3,3, 5,5,-tetra-nitroazoxybenzene, also referred to as White Compound. The introduction of the rubber hose caused a rapid, exothermic oxidation reaction between the hose material and the mixed acid present. The heat generated by this reaction caused a local acceleration of the normal nitration/oxidation reactions which occur in the nitrator until a critical temp was reached, at which point rapid oxidation of DNT/TNT proceeded as a runaway reaction, igniting the material present in the vessel. 

Price S. Weissman, Investigation of Damaged Pre-Engineered Building at Radford Army Ammunition Plant , PATR 4755 (1975) 29) C.A. 

F. T., "Hazard Evaluation and Risk Analysis of the NC Thermal Dehy Facility - Bldg. 3507," Report No. HA-79-R-2, Hercules Aerospace Division, Radford Army Ammunition Plant, Radford,... 

RAAP RCRA RDM RDX RIP ROD RWM Radford Army Ammunition Plant Resource Conservation and Recovery Act rocket dismantling machine cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (an energetic material) request for proposals record of decision rotary washout machine... 

T. W. EWING, F. T. KRISTOFF, and W, T. BOLLETER Hercules Incorp., Radford Army Ammunition Plant, Radford, VA 24141... 

Ibid, Vol 10, Iowa Army Ammunition Plant 11) Ibid, Vol 11, Joliet Army Ammunition Plant 12) Ibid, Vol 12, Kansas Army Ammunition Plant 13) Ibid, Vol 13, Lake City Army Ammunition Plant 14) Ibid, Vol 14, Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant 15) Ibid, Vol 15, Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant 16) Ibid, Vol 16, Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant 17) Ibid, Vol 17, Milan Army Ammunition Plant 18) Ibid, Vol 18, Radford Army Ammunition Plant 19) Ibid, Vol 19, Ravenna Army Ammunition Plant 20) Ibid, Vol 20, River-bank Army Ammunition Plant 21) Ibid,... 

Checkai RT et al., Transport and Fate of Nitroaromatic and Nitramine Explosives in Soils from Open Burning Open Detonation Operations at Radford Army Ammunition Plant, ERDEC-TR-133, Edgewood Research Development and Engineering Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, 1993. 

Liquid Chromatographic Analysis of Nitration Acids , JChromatogr 108 (2), 365—69 (1975) 26) B.W. Jezek, Investfeation into the Use of Suppressive Shielding at Radford Army Ammunition Plant TNT Ones , EM-TR-76002, Edge-wood Ars (1975) 27) R. Goldstein, Com-... 

Kohlbeck, J., Chandler, C., Jr., and Dickenson, R., Final Engineering Report on Production Engineering Projects PE-238 and PE-289, Radford Army Ammunition Plant, Hercules, Inc., Radford, Va., May, 1973. 

The Radford Army Ammunition Plant (RAAP) is responsible for production of M28 simulant hydrolysate. 

Analysis of an Incident at the Radford Army Ammunition Plant... 

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