Disposal options for the rocket motors from nerve agent rockets stored at Blue Grass Army Depot / Committee on Disposal Options for the Rocket Motors of Nerve Agent Rockets at Blue Grass Army Depot, Board on Army Science and Technology, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Disposal Options for the Rocket Motors of Nerve Agent Rockets at Blue Grass Army Depot, issuing body.

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Army Science and Technology, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rockets (Aeronautics)--Waste disposal--United States.

Rockets (Aeronautics).

Motors--Waste disposal--United States.

Motors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (96 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : National Academies Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Safety

Technologies for rocket motor disposal

Storage of separated rocket motors

Options for disposal of separated rocket motors.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780309260480

0309260485

9780309260466

0309260469

OCLC:

823907539