Interim Design Assessment for the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant (2005) / Chapter Skim
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As a signatory to the international treaty known as the Chemical Weapons Convention, which was ratified by the international community on April 29, 1997, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives Program the United States had 10 years to destroy its stockpile, In 1996, in response to local opposition to the use of with an allowable extension of 5 years. It recently has incineration for destroying the stockpile of chemical been acknowledged that the United States will need the agents and munitions, the U.S.
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The system contract was awarded to Bechtel Na signs for the pilot plant facilities for the sites at Pueblo, tional, Inc., in September 2002, and work to develop a Colorado, and Blue Grass, Kentucky. The present comfull-scale pilot plant design began in December 2002.3,4 mittee -- the Committee to Assess Designs for Pueblo and Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants (referred to as the ACWA Design Committee)
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Although the committee members could attend all sesThe committee's statement of task is as follows: sions and were given presentations during the interme diate design reviews, they were not allowed to have The Program Manager for Assembled Chemical Weapons Alterna tives (PMACWA) has awarded contracts for the design, construc- either paper or electronic copies of the presentation tion, systemization, pilot testing, operation and closure activities slides nor of the intermediate design package, since aimed at destroying the assembled chemical weapons stockpiles at these items had not yet undergone operations security Pueblo Chemical Depot and Blue Grass Army Depot.
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Included in these activities are CHEMICAL AGENT DESTRUCTION PILOT PLANT safety analysis, licensing and environmental permit The Army procurement request for the Pueblo ting, technical risk assessment, the use of lessons Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant called for bid- learned from previous chemical weapons disposal pro TABLE 1-1 Chemical Weapons Stockpile of HD- or HT-Filled Munitions at Pueblo Chemical Depot Munition Type Model No. Chemical Fill Energetics Configuration 105-mm cartridge M60 1.4 kg HD Burster: 0.12 kg tetrytol Unreconfigured: semifixed, complete projectile: Fuze: M51A5 includes fuze, burster.
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These chal- self, the installed equipment, the piping, the electrical lenges stem from the PCAPP being a first-of-a-kind equipment and wiring, and the control instrumentation facility that will require the integration of many sub- are mandatory components for conducting operations system process components that have yet to be de- and maintenance. To acquire and manage these design signed, built, or tested at a scale consistent with the components, the PCAPP contractor team has organized anticipated throughput of the facility.
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The three-dimensional computer model computer model for PCAPP that includes all civil struc- for the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant tures, equipment, piping and electrical infrastructure, is a key element in the formal configuration control control instrumentation, and interfaces, and provides program that has been developed by the Bechtel Pueblo considerable detail on the installation process and op- team. All design and procurement documentation is erational parameters.7 maintained in its most current form and related via the An important element of any design-build activity is three-dimensional model.
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