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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meetings and Site Visits." National Research Council. 2009. Assessment of Explosive Destruction Technologies for Specific Munitions at the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12482.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meetings and Site Visits." National Research Council. 2009. Assessment of Explosive Destruction Technologies for Specific Munitions at the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12482.
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Appendix B Committee Meetings and Site Visits First Committee Meeting, MAY 7-8, 2008 Site Visit, MAY 12-13, 2008 Washington, D.C. Schofield Barracks, HAWAII Objectives: National Research Council introduction Objective: Richard J. Ayen, Committee Chair, travels to (administrative actions, including committee introduc- Schofield Barracks to witness the final control detona- tions and composition/balance/bias discussions for tion chamber (CDC) operations. committee members), statement of task for the com- mittee and background review with sponsor, receive TELECONFERENCE, MAY 22, 2008 detailed process and equipment briefings, review COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH preliminary report outline and report writing process, AND ENVIRONMENT AND THE COMMITTEE confirm committee writing assignments, and decide future meeting dates and next steps. Objective: To learn about the Colorado regulator’s per- spective on explosive detonation technologies. Briefings and Discussions Second Committee Meeting, MAY 28-29, 2008 Consideration of Statement of Task: Richard Ayen, Washington, D.C. Committee Chair; Ray Malecki, Office of Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (ACWA) Program Objectives: National Research Council ­ composition/ balance/bias discussions for committee members, Dynasafe Detonation Chamber: Harley Heaton, Vice receive detailed process and equipment briefings, President for Research, UXB International, Inc. review preliminary report draft and report writing process, confirm committee writing assignments, and Nonstockpile Experience at Pine Bluff and S­chofield decide future meeting dates and next steps. Barracks: Allan Caplan, Project Engineer, Non- S ­ tockpile Program, Chemical Materials Agency Briefings and Discussions Controlled Detonation Chambers: D. Brint Bixler, Vice Chairman’s Observations on the Schofield Barracks President, CH2M HILL Process: Richard Ayen, Committee Chair DAVINCH: Kiyoshi J. Asahina, Chief of Technology, Chemical Weapons Demilitarization (CWD) Projects Department, Kobe Steel, Ltd. 111

112 ASSESSMENT OF EXPLOSIVE DESTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board TELECONFERENCE, AUGUST 18, 2008 (DDESB) Permits for Detonation Technologies: Steve U.S. ARMY CHEMICAL MATERIALS AGENCY Hoffman, Chemical Materials Agency AND THE COMMITTEE Community Relations: Katherine DeWeese, Director, Objectives: To discuss recent meeting with DDESB Communications and Congressional Affairs, Office of personnel, discuss the practicality of destroying over- the ACWA Program packed munitions in the TDC and the EDS, and confirm the DDESB requirement for a particular ratio of donor explosive to propellant when destroying rockets and TELECONFERENCE, JULY 22, 2008 rocket motors. KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND THE COMMITTEE Third Committee Meeting, AUGUST 25-27, 2008 Objective: To learn about the Kentucky regulator’s J. ERIK JONSSON CENTER, WOODS HOLE, perspective on explosive detonation technologies. MASSACHUSETTS Objectives: To review preliminary concurrence draft, Site VisitS, AUGUST 3-7, 2008 determine what is not yet known and how to learn POELKAPELLE, BELGIUM, AND MÜNSTER, it, sign concurrence documents, and to lay out a path GERMANY forward. Objective: Douglas M. Medville, Committee Vice Chair, travels to examine the DAVINCH and static detonation chamber (SDC) systems.

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The Army's ability to meet public and congressional demands to destroy expeditiously all of the U.S. declared chemical weapons would be enhanced by the selection and acquisition of appropriate explosive destruction technologies (EDTs) to augment the main technologies to be used to destroy the chemical weapons currently at the Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD) in Kentucky and the Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) in Colorado. The Army is considering four EDTs for the destruction of chemical weapons: three from private sector vendors, and a fourth, Army-developed explosive destruction system (EDS).

This book updates earlier evaluations of these technologies, as well as any other viable detonation technologies, based on several considerations including process maturity, process efficacy, process throughput, process safety, public and regulatory acceptability, and secondary waste issues, among others. It also provides detailed information on each of the requirements at BGAD and PCD and rates each of the existing suitable EDTs plus the Army's EDS with respect to how well it satisfies these requirements.

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