Alternative Technologies for the Destruction of Chemical Agents and Munitions

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Publication Year:1993

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Committee on Alternative Chemical Demilitarization Technologies, National Research Council
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FRONT MATTER	i-xviii	(skim)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY	1-21	(skim)
1 INTRODUCTION	22-36	(skim)
2 THE U.S. CHEMICAL WEAPONS STOCKPILE	37-53	(skim)
3 U.S. AND FOREIGN EXPERIENCE WITH CHEMICAL WEAPONS DESTRUCTION	54-74	(skim)
4 REQUIREMENTS AND CONSIDERATIONS FOR CHEMICAL DEMILITARIZATION TECHNOLOGIES	75-93	(skim)
5 THERMAL TREATMENT AND PREPROCESSING AND POSTPROCESSING OPERATIONS	94-108	(skim)
6 LOW-TEMPERATURE, LIQUID-PHASE PROCESSES	109-136	(skim)
7 PROCESSES AT MEDIUM AND HIGH TEMPERATURES	137-184	(skim)
8 APPLICATION OF ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE U.S. CHEMICAL WEAPONS STOCKPILE	185-208	(skim)
APPENDIX A: STATEMENT OF TASK	209-209	(skim)
APPENDIX B: LETTER FROM JAMES R. AMBROSE	210-212	(skim)
APPENDIX C: LETTER FROM CHARLES BARONIAN	213-236	(skim)
APPENDIX D: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES	237-243	(skim)
APPENDIX E: TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPERS THAT SUPPLIED INFROMATION	244-249	(skim)
APPENDIX F: COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND ACTIVITIES	250-258	(skim)
APPENDIX G: TECHNOLOGY STATUS AND WORKSHEET	259-261	(skim)
APPENDIX H: EXCERPT FROM THE U.S. AMRY's 5X DECONTAMINATION REVIEW	262-270	(skim)
APPENDIX I: IONIZING RADIATION	271-273	(skim)
APPENDIX J: ELECTROCHEMICAL OXIDATION	274-278	(skim)
APPENDIX K: ADDITIONAL DATA AND MATERIAL BALANCES FOR WET AIR OXIDATION, SUPERCRITICAL WATER OXIDATION, AND THE SYNTHETICA DETOXIFIER	279-291	(skim)
REFERENCES	292-310	(skim)
INDEX	311-323	(skim)

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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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