The United States Army says nearly all 30 gallons of a liquid tainted with deadly nerve agent VX is cleaned up.

The spill happened Friday night at the Newport Chemical Depot as VX was fed into a reactor where it's neutralized.

It's the first spill since VX destruction began on May 5th.

While the Army investigates what caused the spill of the deadly VX hydrolysate mixture, it says, a spill was not out of the question, with the design of the facility taking small leaks into account.

"While this event did occur, I would not characterize it as unexpected," says Jeffrey Brubaker, NEDCF Site Project Manager.

The spill was being cleaned up on Monday by workers wearing protective suits, the same suits worn during the destruction process and during the spill.

Such safety measures put the minds of Mary Griffin and Michael Bruce to ease, somewhat.

"We're all concerned to a point, but I think we realize there's not a whole lot we can do about it. They have hired the experts supposedly to take care of this and we have to trust that that's what they will do," Griffin says.

"You're always going to have something in the back of your mind saying you're scared," says Bruce.

But the Army doesn't want Newport or the surrounding communities to be scared, saying now five weeks into it, they'll take planned time off from the neutralization process to re-group.

"We will be sharing lessons learned from both perspectives, plant or equipment performance as well as operation performance," says Brubaker.

And destruction won't continue until the Army is sure it's safe.

Brubaker says, "We will not resume operations until such time as we have satisfaction ourselves that we fully understand the cause of the leak and we are satisfied that we can reasonably prevent it from occurring again."

And that's good news for Griffin, who puts her faith in "the experts".

"We just have to take it day by day and hope and pray that it doesn't happen."

The Army's planned pause from destruction was originally supposed to be just a week, but that pause will now last indefinitely.