Assessment of Approaches for Using Process Safety Metrics at the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants (2011) / Chapter Skim
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In 1990, the chemical agent and munitions stockpile JACADS completed its mission of destroying contained in excess of 31,000 tons of chemical agents approximately 4 percent of the nation's chemical stored at eight chemical weapons depots operated agent stockpile that had been stored on Johnston Island by the Army in the continental United States and on in November 2000. Of the eight U.S.
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JACADS, Aberdeen, and in achieving this goal, the NRC was asked to review Newport have been closed. existing safety and environmental metrics at operating C hemical agent destruction pilot plants that chemical agent disposal facilities and to recommend employ nonincineration alternative destruction tech - additional metrics and/or program modifications, if nologies are currently under construction at the PCD necessary.
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Historically, the CMA has focused its continuously assess the effectiveness of the process safety program on the prevention of agent releases, safety management program and the organization's the safe handling of energetics, and the safe closure of ability to focus on safety, including but not limited chemical agent disposal facilities that have completed to operational discipline and adherence to standards operations. and performance metrics.
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Although During site visits to Pueblo, Colorado, and Rich- the mustard agent to be processed at PCAPP is not mond, Kentucky, to meet with staff supporting PCAPP covered by the OSHA PSM standard, PCAPP plans and BGCAPP, the committee learned that process to establish a process safety management system to safety management considerations have been incorpo- meet the intent of the OSHA PSM regulations. Durrated.
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It also provides background informationally, two of the processing steps that will be used, tion on the role that the NRC has played in assisting the hydrolysate handling and the energetics batch hydroly- Army to conduct chemical agent disposal operations sis, were selected by the committee to provide guidance safely, the origin of the present report and the purpose on identifying process safety metrics. These examples to be served by it, and the activities to be undertaken should help to clarify the process for developing pro- by the committee in fulfillment of its statement of task.
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process safety metrics and related methodologies for There are also valuable lessons to be learned from PCAPP and BGCAPP. experiences with those parts of the disposal process used at the CMA neutralization and incineration sites REFERENCE that are similar to the processes planned for use at Chemical Safety Board.
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