Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment Program

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Table of Contents

Message from Program Manager. iii

Message from Dialogue on Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment v

Programmatic Assessment of ACWA v

Recommendations Regarding Continuity of the ACWA Program. vii

Criteria Development and Application and Public Acceptability Recommendations. ix

Executive Summary . xix

I. INTRODUCTION 1

II. DEMONSTRATIONS 2

A. Demonstration Preparations 2

1. Technology Selection Process 2

2. Technology Overview. 4

3. Demonstration Objectives and Planning. 5

4. Facility Support. 8

5. Analytical Support 9

B. General Demonstration Operations. 10

1. Hydrolysate Generation 10

a. Agent Hydrolysates. 11

b. Energetics Hydrolysate . 11

2. Demonstration Issues 11

C. Results and Evaluation 12

1. Burns and Roe. 12

a. Installation and Systemization Summary 12

b. Demonstration Operations 13

c. Technology Evaluation . 15

2. General Atomics . 17

a. Installation and Systemization Summary 17

b. Demonstration Operations 18

c. Technology Evaluation . 20

3. Parsons/AlliedSignal. 22

a. Installation and Systemization Summary 22

b. Demonstration Operations 23

c. Technology Evaluation . 25

III. CONCLUSIONS. 27

Appendices

A. List of Dialogue Participants and Alternates A-1

B. Program Evaluation Team Report B-1

C. Demonstration Details C-1

I. Descriptions of Test Locations and Unit Operations C-1

II. Analytical Approaches C-2

III. Agent and Energetics Hydrolysates C-4

D. Dialogue Participant Minority Report D-1

E. Acronyms/Abbreviations .E-1