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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Ian Kirkwood

Big new Orica tank on road to Kooragang Island on Tuesday

WORDS INTO ACTION: The first 'reactor vessel' in a $37-million project to cut emissions from the nitric acid plants inside Orica's Kooragang Island ammonium nitrate facility. Picture: Orica

THE first of three purpose-built vessels at the heart of a greenhouse gas reduction program has arrived from Italy and will be road-hauled to Orica Kooragang Island on Tuesday.

An Orica spokesperson said the reactor vessels would be installed on-site with other equipment to deal with nitrous oxide, a byproduct of the nitric acid plant and a major source of greenhouse gas emissions when making ammonium nitrate for mining explosives.

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