Assessment of Explosive Destruction Technologies for Specific Munitions at the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants (2009) / Chapter Skim
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and the Pueblo Chemical Agent Pilot Plant (PCAPP) -- being designed and constructed at the Blue Grass and Requirements for the Blue Grass Site Pueblo sites under the Assembled Chemical Weapons The three requirements involving use of EDTs at the Alternatives (ACWA)
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However, the three requirements given above have been defined for their possible The single requirement involving use of EDTs at the use at the Blue Grass site. Pueblo site is as follows: Requirement BG-1 is the on-site processing of approximately 70,000 noncontaminated rocket motors.
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H is the only form Reject munitions are those that have presented or might present of mustard agent stored at Blue Grass Army Depot. difficult issues for disassembly during normal operations.
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be detected when monitoring for agent at the RCM. PCAPP Process Description Ray Malecki, Blue Grass Project Engineer, ACWA, "Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (ACWA)
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OD, 13.385-in. slot in 1 on top and 4 on wall, carbon carbon steel plate structural steel OD, structural flange body tube steel tube welded to tube plate welded to steel plate with tube and with 8 0.50-in.
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(MPT) Offgas Energetics hydrolysate Bulk oxidizer Agent hydrolysate Energetics Offgas neutralization system (ENS)
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to an off-site permitted disposal facility. Question-and-answer session with Joseph Novad, Deputy Ray Malecki, Blue Grass Project Engineer, ACWA, "Assembled Operations and Engineering Manager, ACWA, and the committee, Chemical Weapons Alternatives (ACWA)
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SOURCE: Adapted from NRC, 2008b. Types of Explosive Destruction Warfare Materiel, often referred to as the International Technologies Technologies report (NRC, 2006)
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or the heat gener- agent vapors. Oxygen is added when munitions contain ated by previous detonations to open the munition ing mustard agent are destroyed.
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A system was recently started up in Belgium using this existing D-100 CDC system to destroy to destroy recovered chemical munitions from the the rocket motors by static firing.12 The test program World War I era. The technology has not been used would include the development of detailed operating in the United States.
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After the contents of the in Münster, Germany, and has been used to treat more chamber have been sampled and the concentration of than 13,000 recovered chemical weapons. According to chemical agent is shown to be below the treatment goal, the manufacturer, the access doors, loading chamber, the liquid waste solution is transferred out of the chamand detonation chamber have been designed to with- ber into a waste drum.
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and testing or operational experience since the 2006 • For technologies other than the EDS, the commitInternational Technologies report. The requirements at tee's thoughts on design changes and upgrades the Blue Grass and Pueblo sites were provided by the that would allow the technologies to be better U.S.
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