Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Destruction System JACADS

Waste estimates for BGCAPP were developed and reported in a 2006 report based on earlier experience at the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Destruction System (JACADS) (BPBGT, 2006a). The results of this comparison of waste types and quantities for BGCAPP is only an approximation, because JACADS was an incineration facil-... 

Shortly after the signing of the bilateral chemical weapons destruction agreement, the army began Operation Steel Box to remove all U.S. chemical weapons from Germany. The project started in July and finished in November 1990, with all the munitions safely moved to Johnston Atoll. The same year, the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Destruction System (JACADS) incinerator on the island became operational. The Tooele demilitarization plant was not operational until 1996. 

The U.S. Army is in the process of destroying the country s stockpile of aging chemical weapons, stored at eight locations in the continental United States and on Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The deadline for completing the destruction of these weapons, as specified by the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) international treaty, is April 29, 2007. Originally, the Army selected incineration as the preferred baseline destruction technology, and it currently operates two incineration facilities—one on Johnston Atoll and one at the Deseret Chemical Depot near Tooele, Utah. The Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System (JACADS) completed destruction of the stockpile on Johnston Island in late 2000, and closure of the... 

The U.S. Army, as the executive agent for the U.S. Department of Defense, selected incineration as the preferred method of stockpile destruction for the first U.S. chemical agent disposal facility. The Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System (JACADS) was located on Johnston Island, southwest of Hawaii, operated throughout the 1990s, and has since been demolished. The first disposal facility in the continental United States is the still active Tooele Chemical Agent... 

Chemical weapons stored overseas were collected at Johnston Island, southwest of Hawaii, and destroyed by the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System (JACADS), the first operational chemical demilitarization facility. JACADS began destruction activities in 1990 and completed processing of the 2,031 tons of chemical agent and the associated 412,732 munitions and containers in the overseas stockpile in November 2000 (U.S. Army, 2001a). 

Incineration processes, especially as built and operated for the destruction of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile, are complex and expensive. For example, the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System (JACADS), the first of the baseline plants, cost 254 million to build and 100 million for systemization (Sutherland, 1997). As of 1997, additional costs of over 500 million for operation were expected. It is not known how the costs of an incineration system to be used for non-stockpile chemical weapon destruction would compare with the JACADS costs. 

JACADS Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Destruction System... 

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