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Washington, District of Columbia : National Academies Press, [2012]

1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations

ISBN 9780309259866 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 0309259851

ISBN 9780309259859

Print version: National Research Council (U.S.). Assessment of agent monitoring strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo chemical agent destruction pilot plants. Washington, District of Columbia : National Academies Press, [2012] xix, 171 pages ; 28 cm. ISBN 9780309259859

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-136)

Introduction -- BGCAPP and PCAPP designs and relevant procedures used at destruction facilities -- Agent monitoring practices for waste generated at BGCAPP and PCAPP.

The Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants report also develops and describes a half-dozen scenarios involving prospective ACWA secondary waste characterization, process equipment maintenance and changeover activities, and closure agent decontamination challenges, where direct, real-time agent contamination measurements on surfaces or in porous bulk materials might allow more efficient and possibly safer operations if suitable analytical technology is available and affordable..

"January 2012 saw the completion of the U.S. Army’s Chemical Materials Agency’s (CMA’s) task to destroy 90 percent of the nation’s stockpile of chemical weapons. CMA completed destruction of the chemical agents and associated weapons deployed overseas, which were transported to Johnston Atoll, southwest of Hawaii, and demilitarized there. The remaining 10 percent of the nation’s chemical weapons stockpile is stored at two continental U.S. depots, in Lexington, Kentucky, and Pueblo, Colorado. Their destruction has been assigned to a separate U.S. Army organization, the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (ACWA) Element. ACWA is currently constructing the last two chemical weapons disposal facilities, the Pueblo and Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants (denoted PCAPP and BGCAPP), with weapons destruction activities scheduled to start in 2015 and 2020, respectively.-.

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