Chemical-Stockpile Disposal Program. Chemical agent and munition disposal. Summary of the US Army's experience. Final report, July 1972-August 1987

Technical Report · Mon Sep 21 00:00:00 EDT 1987

OSTI ID:6907960

Flamm, K J; Kwan, Q; McNulty, W B

This report was prepared in support of the U.S. Army's Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (CSDP) Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, and Discuss the Army's industrial-scale chemical agent and munitions disposal experience. Since 1969, when the National Academy of Science recommended that ocean dumping be discontinued as a method of chemical agent and munition disposal, the Army has destroyed nearly 15 million pounds of chemical agents by either chemical neutralization or incineration. This experience has been incorporated into the design of the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System, which is being constructed on a small island in the Pacific Ocean, and the proposed CSDP disposal plants.

• Research Organization: Office of the Program Manager, Chemical Demilitarization, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6907960
• Report Number(s): AD-A-193351/4/XAB; SAPEO-CDE-IS-87005
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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570000* -- Health & Safety
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS
DESIGN
DOCUMENT TYPES
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
INCINERATORS
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
MANAGEMENT
PACIFIC OCEAN
PH VALUE
PROGRESS REPORT
SEAS
STOCKPILES
SURFACE WATERS
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING PLANTS
WEAPONS