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... BACKGROUND ON THE ACWA PROGRAM · Assess process and facility designs of the Pueblo and Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants. DOD established the Assembled Chemical Weap- · Consider design issues raised by permitting considerations and ons Assessment (ACWA)
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... being considered as one means to achieve a more pre cise cut. The energetics from the rockets, which include warBRIEF DESCRIPTION AND ASSESSMENT OF head segments containing burster charge segments and THE BGCAPP INITIAL DESIGN fuzes and rocket motor segments containing propellant, PMACWA awarded the contract for a chemical are placed in bins and transferred using multiaccess weapons destruction facility to the Bechtel Parsons robotic arms to 16 EBHs for treatment.
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... The agent is drained and a highcommercial off-the-shelf robotic machine to replace the pressure water spray nozzle on the hydraulic ram circular projectile/mortar disassembly machines at washes out any remaining residue while the projectile chemical disposal facilities using baseline incineration body is rotated. The emptied projectile body is weighed technology.
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... The committee was able to review Agent concentrate from the cavity accessing and only initial design documentation for BGCAPP, results washout process is stored in agent storage tanks until of completed technical risk reduction program studies ready for hydrolysis. Then, the agent is sent to one of and tests, and presentations pertaining to the developtwo agent neutralization reactors (ANRs)
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... As the BGCAPP design taminated dunnage is to treat it in the MPT to levels evolves, the Army and the contractors making up the suitable for release to appropriate waste disposal sites. Bechtel Parsons Blue Grass Team should continue to make the safety of workers and the public a foremost General Finding 6.
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... through its comments on the various licensing and per- Furthermore, the involvement and collaboration of mitting activities and can directly contact the Blue stakeholders (especially the public) should remain Grass Chemical Demilitarization Outreach Office to a cornerstone of the chemical weapons destruction have concerns and questions addressed.
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  • chemical weapons
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  • grass army
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  • agent neutralization
  • projectiles containing
  • rocket motor
  • supercritical water
  • secondary waste

  • storage tanks
  • projectile body
  • motor segments
  • chemical destruction
  • energetics agent

  • agent disposal
  • design committee
  • acwa design
  • intermediate design
  • design issues


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