National Research Council, The National Academies Press, Washington D.C. 2012, 141 p.
This report is concerned with the investigation and, if required, the remediation of sites that contain buried chemical warfare materiel (CWM). About 250 such sites, located in 40 states and territories of the United States, are thought to exist. Remediation efforts are currently under way in the Spring Valley area of Washington, D.C., and at the Camp Sibert site in Alabama. A substantially larger effort is anticipated at the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.
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INTRODUCTION: The Nature of the Recovered CWM Problem, Non-Stockpile Chemical Warfare Material in the United States, Study Context, Statement of Task, Addressing the Statement of TaskBrief content
CURRENT POLICY, FUNDING, ORGANIZATION, AND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES: Policy Development, Historical and Organizational Overview (First World War-2007), Chronology and Context of Directives and Instructions, Funding, Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP), Operations and Management (O&M), Organization, Processes
TREATY AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORK AND PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT CONSIDERATIONS: Treaty and Regulatory Requirements that Determine Scope and Cost of Cleanup, Treaty Obligations, Corrective Action, Historic Examples, Requirements, Clean Islands in the Middle of Contaminated Operational Ranges, Corrective Action Management Units
TECHNOLOGIES FOR CLEANUP OF CWM SITES: Technology Work Flow, Geophysical Detection, Personal Protective Equipment, Air Monitoring During Excavation, Interim Storage, and Destruction, Monitoring Equipment, Types of Monitoring, Excavation Equipment and Techniques, Conventional Excavation Equipment, Robotic Excavation Equipment, Packaging, Transportation, Storage (On-Site and Intrastate), CWM Packaging and Transportation, CWM Storage, Single Chemical Agent Identification Set Access and Neutralization System, Spectroscopic and X-Ray Assessment, Digital Radiography and Computed Tomography, Portable Isotopic Neutron Spectroscopy, Raman Spectroscopy, Mobile Munitions Assessment System, Destruction Technologies, Explosive Destruction System, Transportable Detonation Chamber, Dynasafe Static Detonation Chamber, Detonation of Ammunition in a Vacuum Integrated Chamber, Secondary Waste Storage and Disposal
REDSTONE ARSENAL: A CASE STUDY
THE PATH FORWARD: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TARGETED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
THE PATH FORWARD: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR POLICY, FUNDING, AND ORGANIZATION
