Download or read book Proposed Installation and Operation of an Explosive Destruction Technology Facility at the Blue Grass Army Depot Richmond Kentucky written by Blue Grass Army Depot (Ky.) and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Assessment Proposed Installation and Operation of an Explosive Destruction Technology Facility at the Blue Grass Army Deport Richmond Kentucky written by United States. Department of Defense. Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment Program and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1993 international treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), and Public Law 99-145 require the U.S. to destroy its stockpile of lethal unitary chemical agents and munitions. The deadline for completing this is April 29, 2007. The purpose of this FEIS is " to assess the potential health and environmental impacts of the construction, operation and closure of a facility to destroy the chemical agent and munitions stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD)" in Richmond, Kentucky. Four alternatives are discussed involving incineration, neutralization and oxidation. The procedures of three alternatives involve using BGAD as a "pilot test facility" and have been evaluated in a separate EIS prepared by the Army's ACWA (Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment) Program.
Download or read book Proposed Installation and Operation of an Explosive Destruction Technoloy Facility at the Bluegrass Army Depot Richmon Kentucky written by United States. Department of Defense. Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment Program and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1993 international treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), and Public Law 99-145 require the U.S. to destroy its stockpile of lethal unitary chemical agents and munitions. The deadline for completing this is April 29, 2007. The purpose of this FEIS is " to assess the potential health and environmental impacts of the construction, operation and closure of a facility to destroy the chemical agent and munitions stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD)" in Richmond, Kentucky. Four alternatives are discussed involving incineration, neutralization and oxidation. The procedures of three alternatives involve using BGAD as a "pilot test facility" and have been evaluated in a separate EIS prepared by the Army's ACWA (Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment) Program.
Download or read book Assessment of Explosive Destruction Technologies for Specific Munitions at the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-05-22 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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). This book updates earlier evaluations of these technologies, as well as any other viable detonation technologies, based on several considerations including process maturity, process efficacy, process throughput, process safety, public and regulatory acceptability, and secondary waste issues, among others. It also provides detailed information on each of the requirements at BGAD and PCD and rates each of the existing suitable EDTs plus the Army's EDS with respect to how well it satisfies these requirements.
Download or read book Interim Design Assessment for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-11-25 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of concerns about incineration, the Department of Defense plans to use alternative means to destroy the chemical agent stockpiles at the Pueblo and Blue Grass facilities. The DOD contracted with Bechtel Parsons to design and operate pilot plants for this purpose. As part of the NRC efforts to assist the DOD with its chemical demilitarization efforts, the Department requested a review and assessment of the Bechtel designs for both plants. An earlier report presented an assessment of the Pueblo design. This report provides a review of the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant based on review of data and information about the initial design and some intermediate design data. Among other topics, the report presents technical risk assessment issues, an analysis of delivery and disassembly operations and of agent destruction core processes, and an examination of waste treatment.
Download or read book Disposal Options for the Rocket Motors From Nerve Agent Rockets Stored at Blue Grass Army Depot written by Committee on Disposal Options for the Rocket Motors of Nerve Agent Rockets at Blue Grass Army Depot and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) is under construction near Richmond, Kentucky, two dispose of one of the two remaining stockpiles of chemical munitions in the United States. The stockpile that BGCAPP will dispose of is stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD). BGCAPP is a tenant activity on BGAD. The stockpile stored at BGAD consists of mustard agent loaded in projectiles, and the nerve agents GB and VX loaded into projectiles and M55 rockets. BGCAPP will process the rockets by cutting them, still in their shipping and firing tube (SFT), between the warhead and motor sections of the rocket. The warhead will be processed through BGCAPP. The separated rocket motors that have been monitored for chemical agent and cleared for transportation outside of BGCAPP, the subject of this report, will be disposed of outside of BGCAPP. Any motors found to be contaminated with chemical agent will be processed through BGCAPP and are not addressed in this report. Disposal Options for the Rocket Motors From Nerve Agent Rockets Stored at Blue Grass Army Depot addresses safety in handling the separated rocket motors with special attention to the electrical ignition system, the need for adequate storage space for the motors in order to maintain the planned disposal rate at BGCAPP, thermal and chemical disposal technologies, and on-site and off-site disposal options. On-site is defined as disposal on BGAD, and off-site is defined as disposal by a commercial or government facility outside of BGAD.
Download or read book Interim Design Assessment for the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-02-18 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996, Congress enacted directing the Department of Defense to assess and demonstrate technology alternatives to incineration for destruction of the chemical weapons stored at Pueblo Chemical and Blue Grass Army Depots. Since then, the National Research Council (NRC) has been carrying out evaluations of candidate technologies including reviews of engineering design studies and demonstration testing. Most recently, the NRC was asked by the Army to evaluate designs for pilot plants at Pueblo and Blue Grass. These pilot plants would use chemical neutralization for destroying the chemical agent and the energetics in the munitions stockpiles of these two depots. This report provides the interim assessment of the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) to permit adjustment of any significant problems as soon as possible. The report presents an analysis of the issues about the current PCAPP design and a series of findings and recommendations about ways to reduce concerns with involve the public more heavily in the process.
Download or read book Assessment of Explosive Destruction Technologies for Specific Munitions at the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants written by Committee to Review Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives Program Detonation Technologies and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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). This book updates earlier evaluations of these technologies, as well as any other viable detonation technologies, based on several considerations including process maturity, process efficacy, process throughput, process safety, public and regulatory acceptability, and secondary waste issues, among others. It also provides detailed information on each of the requirements at BGAD and PCD and rates each of the existing suitable EDTs plus the Army's EDS with respect to how well it satisfies these requirements.
Download or read book Blue Grass Army Depot Richmond KY written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Full Committee Consideration of H R 1409 to Authorize Certain Construction at Military Installations for Fiscal Year 1986 and for Other Purposes written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tooele Army Depot Chemical Agent Munitions Disposal System written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. military has a stockpile of approximately 400,000 tons of excess, obsolete, or unserviceable munitions. About 60,000 tons are added to the stockpile each year. Munitions include projectiles, bombs, rockets, landmines, and missiles. Open burning/open detonation (OB/OD) of these munitions has been a common disposal practice for decades, although it has decreased significantly since 2011. OB/OD is relatively quick, procedurally straightforward, and inexpensive. However, the downside of OB and OD is that they release contaminants from the operation directly into the environment. Over time, a number of technology alternatives to OB/OD have become available and more are in research and development. Alternative technologies generally involve some type of contained destruction of the energetic materials, including contained burning or contained detonation as well as contained methods that forego combustion or detonation. Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions reviews the current conventional munitions demilitarization stockpile and analyzes existing and emerging disposal, treatment, and reuse technologies. This report identifies and evaluates any barriers to full-scale deployment of alternatives to OB/OD or non-closed loop incineration/combustion, and provides recommendations to overcome such barriers.
Download or read book EIS Cumulative written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Design Construction and Operation of One Or More Pilot Test Facilities for Assembled Chemical Weapons Destruction Technologies at One Or More Sites AL AK CO KY written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Involvement in the U S Army s Program to Destroy Chemical Weapons written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effects of the Deletion of Chemical Agent Washout on Operations at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States manufactured significant quantities of chemical weapons during the Cold War and the years prior. Because the chemical weapons are aging, storage constitutes an ongoing risk to the facility workforces and to the communities nearby. In addition, the Chemical Weapons Convention treaty stipulates that the chemical weapons be destroyed. The United States has destroyed approximately 90 percent of the chemical weapons stockpile located at seven sites. As part of the effort to destroy its remaining stockpile, the Department of Defense is building the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) on the Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD), near Richmond, Kentucky. The stockpile stored at BGAD consists of rockets and projectiles containing the nerve agents GB and VX and the blister agent mustard. Continued storage poses a risk to the BGAD workforce and the surrounding community because these munitions are several decades old and are developing leaks. Due to public opposition to the use of incineration to destroy the BGAD stockpile, Congress mandated that non- incineration technologies be identified for use at BGCAPP. As a result, the original BGCAPP design called for munitions to be drained of agent and then for the munition bodies to be washed out using high-pressure hot water. However as part of a larger package of modifications called Engineering Change Proposal 87 (ECP-87), the munition washout step was eliminated. Effects of the Deletion of Chemical Agent Washout on Operations at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant examines the impacts of this design change on operations at BGCAPP and makes recommendations to guide future decision making.
Download or read book Chemical Stockpile Programmatic Disposal Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
