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Workers fixed faulty gaskets on a chemical reactor built to neutralize the Newport Chemical Depot’s stockpile of VX and restarted destruction of the deadly nerve agent Saturday, the Army said.
A gasket failure Oct. 29 caused 490 gallons of caustic wastewater to spill at the facility. It was in an area where the wastewater is sampled to ensure it contains no measurable amounts of VX.
All 88 gaskets in the two chemical reactors being used to destroy VX were being replaced after the failure, and the second reactor tank was expected to take three more weeks to complete.
