[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Thermal destruction of solid rocket motors, Letterkenny Munitions Center, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel]

Letterkenny Munitions Center demonstrates destructing rocket motors

by Jennifer Fitch
Hagerstown Herald Mail (MD)
November 25, 2018
 
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - Letterkenny Munitions Center this fall hosted a group of environmental specialists to perform testing on the center's ammonium perchlorate rocket-motor thermal-destruction facility.

Most recently, subject-matter experts, including the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and Blue Mountain Environmental, performed stack testing using the Phoenix rocket motor. The testing technically evaluates the final discharge released into the environment through analyses during the motor-firing process, according to a news release from Letterkenny.

The facility seeks to demilitarize ammonium perchlorate-based composite-rocket motors through a confined-burn system. The procedures reduce pollution by capturing exhaust byproducts and cleansing them.

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https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/tri_state/pennsylvania/letterkenny-munitions-center-demonstrates-destructing-rocket-motors/article_f8c2c952-6616-59c2-9498-bf20f3594456.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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