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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969100703321

Titolo

Assessment of explosive destruction technologies for specific munitions at the Blue Grass and Pueblo chemical agent destruction pilot plants / / Committee to Review Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives Program Detonation technologies, Board on Army Science and Technology, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, 2009

ISBN

9786612130410

9780309177481

0309177480

9781282130418

1282130412

9780309126847

0309126843

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 115 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

623.4

Soggetti

Chemical weapons disposal - Kentucky - Richmond

Chemical weapons disposal - Colorado - Pueblo

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Tables and Figures""; ""Acronyms and Abbreviations""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Evaluation Factors Specific to ACWA Sites Application""; ""3 Current Status of Explosive Destruction Technologies""; ""4 Rating of Explosive Destruction Technologies for Proposed BGCAPP and PCAPP Applications""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A: Chapter 4 from the 2006 NRC Report *Review of International Technologies for Destruction of Recovered Chemical Warfare Materiel*""; ""Appendix B: Committee Meetings and Site Visits""

""Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members""

Sommario/riassunto

The Army's ability to meet public and congressional demands to



destroy expeditiously all of the U.S. declared chemical weapons would be enhanced by the selection and acquisition of appropriate explosive destruction technologies (EDTs) to augment the main technologies to be used to destroy the chemical weapons currently at the Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD) in Kentucky and the Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) in Colorado. The Army is considering four EDTs for the destruction of chemical weapons: three from private sector vendors, and a fourth, Army-developed explosive destruction system (EDS).