Review Criteria for Successful Treatment of Hydrolysate at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant (2015) / Chapter Skim
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program was cal agent was removed, collected, and incinerated.2 Chemical established to demonstrate other means of destroying the agent stored in bulk containers at two other chemical storage chemical agent. sites have been destroyed by hydrolyzing the agent with Congress also required a more robust effort at public either hot water or caustic.3 involvement by ACWA, which led to the initiation of the The remaining two sites with chemical weapons stock- 5-year-long dialogue on assembled chemical weapons piles are the Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD)
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, to be delivered 9 months from start of contract, projectiles at BGAD do not contain energetics.5 and a second report, on the Blue Grass Chemical Destruction The facility being constructed to destroy the nerve agent Agent Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) , to be delivered at the end of munitions at BGAD is called the Blue Grass Chemical Agent the 15-month contract period.
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PCAPP hydrolysate committee was nearing completion and However, because of the high salt content of the hydro publication as the effort for BGCAPP was beginning. lysate, including a number of different salt species, the The first BGCAPP hydrolysate committee meeting took blended agent and energetics hydrolysate feed presents a place in January 2015 and the PCAPP report was released in challenge to SCWO.
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at the Pueblo and Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruc A delay in the disposal of munitions and agent at tion Pilot Plants, to assess the SCWO and WRS processes, BGCAPP is extremely undesirable. The nerve agent muni- develop criteria by which to judge success, consider onsite tions to be treated at the BGCAPP have been stored at the mitigation strategies should the SCWO or WRS systems BGAD for over 50 years, representing a steady-state or underperform, and explore the potential for offsite transport even increasing risk profile for the community (due, for of the hydrolysate.
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While a comprehensive and detailed assessment of adopting another technology to replace SCWO CONSIDERATION OF ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES for the onsite treatment of hydrolysate is beyond the scope of charge to the committee, the discussions of the decision In the course of its interactions with public stakeholders, framework (Chapter 6) , public involvement (Chapter 3)
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2012. Letter Report: The Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant's Water Recovery System.
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