Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants (2012) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
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This occurred after residents near these two facilities convinced their congressional representatives that they were seriously concerned about the safety and effectiveness of CMA's technology selection for assembled weapons, based on robotic disassembly and separate incineration of the chemical agent and energetic materials in agent-filled munitions. The time required to define, assess, and develop alternative assembled weapons demilitarization technologies, coupled with serious budget constraints, has delayed chemical weapons destruction at Lexington and Pueblo; their demilitarization plants are still under construction.
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Considerable time and effort are spent characterizing and decontaminating secondary waste, process machinery, and equipment during both disposal operations and plant closure; this significantly extends the time needed for safe and effective chemical weapons destruction and prolongs plant closure. If robust, portable, real-time surface agent contamination analytical instrumentation is available and can shorten the time and effort required for tasks not directly contributing to chemical weapons destruction, they may be well worth deploying at the two new ACWA demilitarization plants.
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Advancements in real-time and near real-time monitoring technology for chemical agents, agent simulants and similar semi-volatile chemicals are being regularly documented in the scientific literature and may present opportunities to build additional efficiencies into waste disposal and closure activities at BGCAPP and PCAPP. The National Research Council will establish an ad hoc committee to: Review the process designs for both BGCAPP and PCAPP to evaluate the expected degree of contamination for facility solid wastes, equipment, and surfaces anticipated from agent destruction processes.
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. Briefings on chemical demilitarization activities and technologies and ambient ionization analytical techniques were presented by the following organizations: Army Element Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives Army Chemical Materials Agency Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center Battelle Memorial Institute Idaho National Laboratory Purdue University, Department of Chemistry At these meetings, committee members also went over technical details, discussed, outlined, and wrote draft report sections, and reviewed report drafts.
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As previously indicated, Appendix A contains short biographical sketches of the committee members and Appendix B provides details of committee meeting activities. Appendix C lists some known current sources of commercially available ambient ionization mass spectrometry equipment in support of the technical presentation in Chapter 4.
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