
By Committee on Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants,Board on Army Science and Technology,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,National Research Council
ISBN-10: 0309259851
ISBN-13: 9780309259859
January 2012 observed the crowning glory of the U.S. Army's Chemical fabrics Agency's (CMA's) job to spoil ninety percentage of the nation's stockpile of chemical guns. CMA accomplished destruction of the chemical brokers and linked guns deployed in another country, that have been transported to Johnston Atoll, southwest of Hawaii, and demilitarized there. the rest 10 percentage of the nation's chemical guns stockpile is saved at continental U.S. depots, in Lexington, Kentucky, and Pueblo, Colorado. Their destruction has been assigned to a separate U.S. military association, the Assembled Chemical guns possible choices (ACWA) Element.
ACWA is at the moment developing the final chemical guns disposal amenities, the Pueblo and Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot crops (denoted PCAPP and BGCAPP), with guns destruction actions scheduled to begin in 2015 and 2020, respectively. ACWA is charged with destroying the mustard agent stockpile at Pueblo and the nerve and mustard agent stockpile at Blue Grass with out utilizing the a number of incinerators and furnaces used on the 5 CMA demilitarization crops that handled assembled chemical guns - munitions containing either chemical brokers and explosive/propulsive elements. the 2 ACWA demilitarization amenities are congressionally mandated to hire noncombustion-based chemical neutralization approaches to wreck chemical agents.
In order to soundly function its disposal vegetation, CMA constructed equipment and tactics to watch chemical agent infection of either secondary waste material and plant structural elements. ACWA presently plans to undertake those equipment and tactics to be used at those amenities. The Assessment of Agent tracking options for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants document additionally develops and describes a half-dozen situations concerning potential ACWA secondary waste characterization, approach gear upkeep and changeover actions, and closure agent decontamination demanding situations, the place direct, real-time agent illness measurements on surfaces or in porous bulk fabrics may perhaps permit extra effective and probably more secure operations if compatible analytical expertise is on the market and affordable.