Tests by U.S. experts from the Iraq Survey Group on five of the shells have shown no trace of chemical weapons, the Danish military said.However, more tests are needed and "the ISG wants a final confirmation, so the results will be sent to the Idaho National Environment Engineering Laboratory," the military said in a statement.
Two tests conducted by the British and two more by Danish experts this week came up positive for blister agents, Danish spokesman, Capt. Kim Vibe Michelsen, told The Associates Press.
From the site:
In operation since 1949, INEEL is a government reservation located in the southeastern Idaho desert. At 890 square miles (569,135 acres), the INEEL is roughly 85 percent the size of Rhode Island. It was established in 1949 as the National Reactor Testing Station and for many years was the site of the largest concentration of nuclear reactors in the world. Fifty-two nuclear reactors were built, including the U.S. Navy's first prototype nuclear propulsion plant. During the 1970s, the laboratory's mission broadened into other areas, such as biotechnology, energy and materials research, and conservation and renewable energy. At the end of the Cold War, waste treatment and cleanup of previously contaminated sites became a priority.
Hmmm.