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Leakers and other occasional the U.S. Army's non-stockpile staff also asked the commit- nonuniform munitions that are periodically encountered tee to report on any promising international technologies for can cause problems out of proportion to their numbers, assessment of chemical weapon burial sites and the assess- however.
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TIER 1 INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR MUNITION PROCESSING EVALUATION CRITERIA The three international technologies assigned to Tier 1 The committee attempted to focus its evaluation activities are described and discussed in Chapter 4. They do not on the international chemical materiel destruction technolo- disassemble the munition and separate the agent and the gies that appeared to be most promising.
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Table ES-2 briefly provides report was being prepared, development work on the CDC engineering parameters that contributed to the rankings for was continuing to demonstrate the usefulness of the CDC the detonation technologies and the NSCMP EDS technol- for recovered chemical operations in the United States. The ogy that are given in Table ES-1.
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hold and test in drained first munitions projectile, 40/day for expansion tank 155-mm projectile, 120/day for 105-mm projectile and 4.2-in. mortar round DAVINCH Technology The size and explosion containment capabilities of ver The DAVINCH technology, developed by Kobe Steel sions of the DAVINCH technology are substantially greater in Japan, uses a large detonation chamber in which chemi- than those of the largest treatment technology used in the cal munitions and their contents are destroyed when donor United States for RCWM (the EDS-2)
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, then the Dynasafe burning of the munition's explosive fill. The chemical agent static kiln can be an effective and flexible technology for in the munition is destroyed as a result of the shock wave destroying large quantities of chemical munitions, within its from the detonation, the resulting gas pressure (measured at explosive containment and munition size constraints.
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ing chemical weapon burial sites and accessing recovered Army to destroy stockpiled chemical weapons that are in chemical munitions. reasonably good condition is not useful for the destruction DOD is a leader in the research and practice of detect of non-stockpile chemical weapons because the deteriorated ing subsurface munitions and explosives of concern using condition of the latter will not allow their disassembly with geophysical processes.
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The U.S. Army should select a remotely operated and automated excavation system con- detonation-type technology as the method for destroying sisting of excavation robots, a device to remove attached recovered chemical munitions excavated from a large burial soil using pressurized air, and an automated transportation site, although the EDS will continue to have application, system that will take the removed CWM through a series of especially at small sites.
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