Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program. Chemical Agent and Munition Disposal. Summary of the U.S. Army's Experience

摘要

The 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. Keywords: Chemical agents, Disposal, Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program, Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Tooele Army Depot.