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... Because of differences in the solvents and chemical agents in CAIS materials and recovered chemical munitions, the RRS and MMD use different neutralization chemistries and produce different liquid waste streams collectively referred to in this study as "neutralent wastes" or "neutralents." A summary of nonstockpile CWM that will be treated by the RRS and MMD, as well as the major constituents of their neutralent waste streams, is given in Table ES-1. According to the Army, the maximum permissible concentration for blister agents in a neutralent stream is 50 parts per million (ppm)
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... technologies, such as from the Army's Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment Program and the Alternative Technologies and Approaches Project, in a semifixed, skid-mounted mode to process Rapid Response System, Munitions Management Device, and Explosive Destruction System liquid neutralization wastes. Around the time the committee was conducting this study, the Army asked two other contractors to undertake similar, 3Under RCRA, a substance is determined to be a hazardous waste either because it is listed as such in the law (a listed hazardous waste)
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... Because the Army had no information on actual tests of the destruction of real or simulated nonstockpile neutralents, the committee relied on the expert judgment of committee members to evaluate each process and to suggest the most promising technologies for development. Although the committee's primary objective was to evaluate alternative treatment technologies for neutralent waste streams, the committee also took into account public and regulatory acceptability, which are likely to affect the selection of alternative technologies.
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... Some of the candidate alternatives to incineration for destroying MMD and RRS neutralents involve hardware that has already been developed, and using them would simply require substituting neutralent for existing feeds. For example, one or more of the demonstration units tested for the chemical disposal programs (e.g., ACWA Program)
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... Third, long-term storage would be inconsistent with regulatory requirements limiting storage time for hazardous wastes. Finally, the cost of storage might be disproportionately high.
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Key Terms

  • alternative technologies
  • neutralent waste
  • nonstockpile cwm
  • chemical agents
  • commercial technologies

  • assembled chemical
  • weapons assessment
  • waste streams
  • neutralent wastes
  • hazardous waste

  • stockpile cwm
  • chemical munitions
  • nonstockpile chemical
  • mmd neutralents
  • management device

  • munitions management
  • chemical materiel
  • nonstockpile neutralents
  • hazardous wastes
  • blister agents

  • containing chemical
  • chemical agent
  • commercial destruction
  • involvement program
  • stockpile disposal

  • candidate technologies
  • recovered chemical
  • agent identification
  • rapid response
  • destruction technologies


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