Review of International Technologies for Destruction of Recovered Chemical Warfare Materiel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780309102032)

The Chemical Weapons Convention requires, among other things, that the signatories to the convention--which includes the United States--destroy by April 29, 2007, or as soon possible thereafter, any chemical warfare materiel that has been recovered from sites where it has been buried once discovered. For several years the United States and several other countries have been developing and using technologies to dispose of this non-stockpile materiel. To determine whether international efforts have resulted in technologies that would benefit the U.S. program, the U.S. Army asked the NRC to evaluate and compare such technologies to those now used by the United States. This book presents a discussion of factors used in the evaluations, summaries of evaluations of several promising international technologies for processing munitions and for agent-only processing, and summaries of other technologies that are less likely to be of benefit to the U.S. program at this time.

Author: National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sci,Board on Army Science and Technology
ISBN-10: 0309102030
ISBN-13: 9780309102032
Publisher: National Academies Press
Language: English
Published: 12/02/2006
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.50w x 0.30d