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Demolition works at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant, which was the centrepiece of the United States' destruction of its chemical weapons stockpiles, began on 15 April. According to DVIDS, the demolition subcontractor, Independence Excavating, is tearing down the main plant, while the first structures to come down
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A number of toxic and radioactive chemicals were discovered in a basement of a house in Prague, Czech Republic, on Saturday 25 April. Mercury, cyanide, arsenic, radioactive thorium and picric acid, which was once used as an explosive in military ordnance, were found during the cleanup of the basement on
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A father and son in New York have been arrested and charged after investigators discovered chemicals at their home that had been combined to create explosive materials. According the Nassau County police department, investigators discovered the chemicals while they were looking into a "bias incident" in which a
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Two people have been killed and over 30 injured after a chemical spill at a manufacturing facility in Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA. The incident occurred on Wednesday 22 April at 09:46 at Catalyst Refiners in Institute, Kanawha County, authorities said in a news release. Kanawha County commission president
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CBRN response teams in Neamț county, northern Romania, were called to an agricultural area in the Dochia commune on Tuesday 21 April after a 10-metre-deep hole suddenly appeared in a field, releasing chlorine gases into the atmosphere. Radio Romania reported that small quantities of chlorine were confirmed through initial measurements
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The Philippines' National Bureau of Investigation has established a specialised unit to address emerging CBRNE and national security threats, it has been announced. The unit will handle investigations involving hazardous materials and explosives, as well as activities linked to foreign malign influence such as disinformation, cyber manipulation and covert
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Police officers dressed in protective clothing and a CBRN team have been deployed to Kensington Park, London, after a number of potentially hazardous items were discovered there in the morning of Friday 17 April. Metropolitan Police are assessing whether the discarded items are linked to a video apparently posted overnight
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Youhuang Xiang, 32, a former post-doctoral researcher at Indiana University in the United States, has been sentenced to more than four months in prison, a $500 fine and one year of supervised release after pleading guilty to smuggling E. coli into the US. Xiang is set to be deported from
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The United States Capability Program Executive for CBRN Defense (CPE CBRND) has approved an urgent materiel release of CBRN unmanned aerial system kits to US Indo-Pacific Command. Posting on LinkedIn on Monday 13 April, CPE CBRND wrote: "This is a significant achievement for our Joint Project Manager for Integrated
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A vocational school in the German city of Dresden was evacuated on Thursday afternoon, 9 April, after several people complained of sudden illness including coughing and vomiting. The building was subsequently evacuated and fifteen people were examined at the scene by paramedics. Three people were taken to hospital. A total
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The United States Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has successfully removed all high-risk caesium-137 material from South Carolina, making it the 13th US state or territory to become free of it. Announcing the news on Thursday 9 April, the NNSA wrote that caesium irradiators have been
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The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has marked the launch of the new "Breath of Freedom Task Force", a Syrian-led coordination framework established to support efforts to identify, secure, transfer and destroy any remaining elements of the Assad-era chemical weapons programme. OPCW director-general Fernando Arias