Review and Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons (1999) / Chapter Skim
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They are not included in the present CSDP, but they are being destroyed in a separate program. THE CALL FOR ALTERNATIVES TO INCINERATION The CSDP currently has two operating baseline incineration systems one on Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean and one at the Deseret Chemical Depot near Tooele, Utah.
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to "identify and demonstrate not less than two alternatives to the baseline incineration process for the demilitarization of assembled chemical munitions." In addition, this law prohibited any obligation of funds for the construction of incineration facilities at two storage sites Richmond, Kentucky, and Pueblo, Colorado until the demonstrations had been completed and an assessment of the results submitted by DOD to Congress. Public Law 104-201 also required that the program manager for ACWA conduct the assessment "in coordination with the National Research Council." The National Research Council (NRC)
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The term assembled chemical weapon is used to describe munitions that contain both chemical agent fH3 GB: H3C P O CH F CH CH3` VX: CH 3CH 20 3 \ .
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to develop a comprehensive list of alternative technologies and to review their potential as agent and munitions disposal technologies. In June 1993, this committee published its report, Alternative Technologies for the Destruction of Chemical Agents and Munitions (NRC, 1993)
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X NOTE: APG, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; ANAD, Anniston Army Depot, Alabama; BGAD, Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky; NECA, Newport Chemical Activity, Indiana; PEA, Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas; PUDA, Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado; TEAD, Tooele Army Depot, Utah; UMDA, Umatilla Depot Activity, Oregon Source: NRC, 1996a. The Stockpile Committee also found, after examination of all the technologies brought to its attention by the Alternatives Committee and others, that four neutralization-based systems showed the most promise for agent destruction (NRC, 1994~.
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The findings and recommendations in that report are pertinent to the ACWA program because two of the proposed ACWA technology packages include the use of SCWO. EVOLUTION OF THE ACWA PROGRAM Congress created the ACWA program (separate from the CSDP)
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Once the members of CATT had signed nondisclosure agreements with all technology providers, they were given access to all proprietary 15 information, and they participated as nonvoting members in DOD's procurement, evaluation, and selection processes. Phases of the ACWA Program Phase 1.
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On October 6, 1997, DOD announced that seven technology providers had passed the go/no-go evaluation. These technology providers and their teaming partners are listed in Table 1-3, and brief descriptions of their technology packages are listed in Table 1-4.
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, DOD, with the help of the CATT, ranked the seven technology packages. DOD announced on April 28,1998, that six of the seven had passed this step, and the six technology providers were awarded $150,000 each to prepare demonstration work plans and purchase items for demonstration that required long lead times.
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tetrytol, and tetryl bursters M28 propellant 7 fuzes 7 bursters each 7 sections DPGb Shredder/hydropulper Dunnage DPE, wood, carbon 5,000 lb shredded 4,600 lb hydropulped DPG Supercritical water oxidation Agent HydrolysatesC HD hydrolysate VX hydrolysate GB hydrolysate VX simulant Energetic/Dunnage Hydrolysates Comp B/M28 propellant hydrolysate and dunnage slurry Tetrytol hydrolysate and Dunnage slurry 1,760 lb 1,760 lb 1,760 lb 4,400 lb 1,760 1n 1,760 lb aCAMDS = Chemical Agent Munitions Disposal System bDPG = Dugway Proving Ground CHydrolysate = by-product of the agent or energetics neutralization reaction Source: Adapted from Eissner, 1999.
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Fiberglass firing tubes 64 lb 64 lb 64 lb 64 lb 64 lb 64 lb 64 lb aDPG = Dugway Proving Ground bAPG = Aberdeen Proving Ground CCAMDS = Chemical Agent Munitions Disposal System Source: Adapted from Eissner, 1999. development program for assembled chemical weapons, looking especially at ensuring maximum protection for the general public, the environment, and the personnel involved in the demilitarization program.
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To ensure independence, the committee decided that all seven technology packages that passed the basic threshold criteria should be evaluated, regardless of subsequent eliminations by DOD. The ACWA program was conceived in Public Law 104-201 as separate from the baseline incineration program.
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The committee visited the Blue Grass Army Depot in Richmond, Kentucky, and the Pueblo Chemical Depot in Pueblo, Colorado, to meet with the personnel responsible for the storage of munitions and with local citizens to discuss the proposed alternative technologies. In Richmond, Kentucky, the committee attended a Citizens' Advisory Commission meeting; in Pueblo, members of the committee manned an information booth at the depot summer festival (part of their public outreach activities)
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