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Review of the Design of the Dynasafe Static Detonation Chamber (SDC) System for the Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility: Letter Report (2010)

Chapter: ATTACHMENT C COMMITTEE TO REVIEW THE DESIGN OF THE DYNASAFE STATIC DETONATION CHAMBER (SDC) SYSTEM FOR THE ANNISTON CHEMICAL AGENT DISPOSAL FACILITY

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Suggested Citation:"ATTACHMENT C COMMITTEE TO REVIEW THE DESIGN OF THE DYNASAFE STATIC DETONATION CHAMBER (SDC) SYSTEM FOR THE ANNISTON CHEMICAL AGENT DISPOSAL FACILITY." National Research Council. 2010. Review of the Design of the Dynasafe Static Detonation Chamber (SDC) System for the Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility: Letter Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12971.
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ATTACHMENT C
COMMITTEE TO REVIEW THE DESIGN OF THE DYNASAFE STATIC DETONATION CHAMBER (SDC) SYSTEM FOR THE ANNISTON CHEMICAL AGENT DISPOSAL FACILITY

RICHARD J. AYEN, Chair, Waste Management, Inc. (retired), Jamestown, Rhode Island

DOUGLAS M. MEDVILLE, Vice chair, MITRE (retired), Reston, Virginia

ROBERT A. BEAUDET, University of Southern California, Pasadena

HEREK L. CLACK, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

REBECCA A. HAFFENDEN, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Santa Fe, New Mexico

DAVID A. HOECKE, Enercon Systems Inc., Elyria, Ohio

C. BRADLEY MOORE, University of California, Berkeley

Staff

HARRISON T. PANNELLA, Study Director

NANCY T. SCHULTE, Senior Program Officer

NIA D. JOHNSON, Senior Research Associate

ALICE V. WILLIAMS, Senior Program Assistant

ANN F. LARROW, Senior Program Assistant

Suggested Citation:"ATTACHMENT C COMMITTEE TO REVIEW THE DESIGN OF THE DYNASAFE STATIC DETONATION CHAMBER (SDC) SYSTEM FOR THE ANNISTON CHEMICAL AGENT DISPOSAL FACILITY." National Research Council. 2010. Review of the Design of the Dynasafe Static Detonation Chamber (SDC) System for the Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility: Letter Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12971.
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The Army is in the process of destroying projectiles and mortars that contain the chemical agent mustard at the Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (ANCDF) located on the Anniston Army Depot (ANAD) in Anniston, Alabama. Were the faulty devices to eventually be processed through the ANCDF, it would require that they be disassembled manually by workers wearing personnel protective equipment known as demilitarization protective ensemble suits. This operation nonetheless would expose the operators to a high safety risk.

Rather than exposing the workers to this additional risk, the Army will use an explosive detonation technology (EDT) to destroy the munitions without disassembling them. The particular EDT system that the Army plans to use is a static detonation chamber (SDC) system manufactured by the Swedish company, Dynasafe AB.

In response to a request from the Army, the present report reviews the design of the Dynasafe Static Detonation Chamber (SDC) system for the Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility.

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