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Alternative Technologies for the Destruction of Chemical Agents and Munitions (1993)

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Suggested Citation:"TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION COSTS." National Research Council. 1993. Alternative Technologies for the Destruction of Chemical Agents and Munitions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2218.
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REQUIREMENTS AND CONSIDERATIONS FOR CHEMICAL DEMILITARIZATION TECHNOLOGIES 91 TABLE 4-2 Time Estimates for Development and Demonstration of Alternative Technologies Development/Demonstration Stage Approximate Time Required Laboratory data development A minimum of 1 to 2 years if major problems not encountered; longer if related data not available Conceptual design 0.5 years (could overlap laboratory work) Pilot plant 0.5 to 1 year for design 2 years to apply and obtain permits 0.5 years to construct 1 to 2 years to operate 0.5 years to evaluate Demonstration 1 year (or more) to design and permit 1 year to procure 1 year of OVT Total time 9 to 12 years (if related data available at concept development stage) TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION COSTS The use of an alternative technology would incur additional program costs both to complete development and demonstration of the technology and to account for delays in the current program. The cost of laboratory and pilot plant development will likely be significantly higher for an alternative chemical demilitarization technology than for an industrial process not involving lethal chemical agent. Special training and facilities are obviously required to work with such toxic chemicals. Furthermore, it is unlikely that

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The U.S. Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program was established with the goal of destroying the nation's stockpile of lethal unitary chemical weapons. Since 1990 the U.S. Army has been testing a baseline incineration technology on Johnston Island in the southern Pacific Ocean. Under the planned disposal program, this baseline technology will be imported in the mid to late 1990s to continental United States disposal facilities; construction will include eight stockpile storage sites.

In early 1992 the Committee on Alternative Chemical Demilitarization Technologies was formed by the National Research Council to investigate potential alternatives to the baseline technology. This book, the result of its investigation, addresses the use of alternative destruction technologies to replace, partly or wholly, or to be used in addition to the baseline technology. The book considers principal technologies that might be applied to the disposal program, strategies that might be used to manage the stockpile, and combinations of technologies that might be employed.

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