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Navy tries again to dispose of napalm
May 15, 1998
Web posted at: 12:12 a.m. EDT (0412 GMT)
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- The U.S. Navy has resumed the process of trying to dispose of 3.3 million gallons of Vietnam War-era napalm stored at its Fallbrook Naval Weapons facility.
On Wednesday, the Navy met with several prospective subcontractors interested in bidding on the $2.5 million recycling subcontract.
Battelle Memorial Institute, the company hired by the Navy to oversee the disposal process, conducted tours of the facility and described the scope of the project.
The Navy has been looking for a recycling company to take the napalm since Pollution Control Industries of East Chicago, Indiana, backed out of its contract in April, citing political and public pressure. The napalm was to be turned into fuel for cement kilns.
The Navy wants to ship the napalm to the Midwest over two years. The aluminum canisters have been sitting in an open field at Fallbrook, north of San Diego, since 1973.
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