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3: Application of the Non-Stockpile Treatment Systems to the NSCWM Inventory
3: Application of the Non-Stockpile Treatment Systems to the NSCWM Inventory
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secondary liquid waste streams 8. large quantities of NSCWM items currently in storage 9.
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CAlS PIGs Finds of complete CAIS PIGs have added a technical requirement for opening the PIG container to access the individual CAIS vials and identify their content prior to treatment. This additional requirement prevents using the Explosive Destruction System (EDS)
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It is currently being tested and evaluated for disposing of CWM in Belgium. The DBC offers an alternative treatment option for neat chemical agents that avoids the addition of chemical reagents and the generation of associated liquid waste streams.
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In light of the expectation that the tent-and-foam system will reduce the amount of agent contamination released from the in-place disposal of a CW munition by detonation, there is no disposal scenario foreseen that would require conventional open detonation of CW munitions, except for expedient CWM disposal in wartime under battlefield conditions. Secondary Liquid Waste Streams Treatment systems such as the RRS and EDS that rely on chemical neutralization of agents produce secondary liquid waste streams of two types: · neutralized agent (neutralent)
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It contains almost 70,000 items, including explosive and nonexplosive munitions with diverse chemical fills, binary agent precursors, CAIS, and bulk containers of chemical agent. If no extension of the CWC treaty deadline is noughts these items must be destroyed by April 29, 2007.
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The committee strongly believes, however, that an integrated approach to the problem of chemical weapons remediation would serve the Army well. NSCWM TREATMENT CATEGORIES FOR WHICH AVAILABLE OR IN-PIPELINE TOOLS ARE ADEQUATE There is at least a sufficient range and often a wide range of disposal or destruction options available or under development for the following seven categories of nonstockpile materiel: CAlS PIGs The RRS is a system that was designed and developed by PMNSCM specifically to handle and treat complete CAIS PIGs and large numbers of loose CAIS vials and bottles.
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Binary Chemical Warfare Materiel Components The entire non-stockpile inventory of binary CWM components is stored in canisters and drums at Pine Bluff Arsenal, a stockpile site. Options for treatment include destruction in the Pine Bluff Chemical Disposal Facility, direct destruction in a plasma arc system (see Finding and Recommendation 2-10)
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Secondary Liquid Waste Streams There appear to be a number of viable options for treatment of secondary liquid waste streams from systems such as the RRS, SCANS, and EDS, although further development work will be required (see the discussion of plasma arc systems, chemical oxidation, and wet air oxidation of neutralents and rinsates in Chapter 2 and Finding and Recommendation 2-11~. NSCWM TREATMENT CATEGORIES FOR WHICH SIGNIFICANT ADDITIONAL INVESTMENT AND PLANNING ARE NEEDED For the following three categories, the committee judges the treatment options that are available or in the pipeline to be insufficient to permit the non-stockpile program to meet its goals.
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Although the pressure of meeting the treaty deadline does not exist for buried NSCWM items, the Army still needs to set a reasonable schedule for the eventual destruction of this buried materiel. It is likely that the removal of buried CWM from the ground prior to destruction will pose the greatest risk, so the Army must have in place sufficient measures to ensure that human health is protected during removal operations.
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