Munitions production

B. W. Je2ek, "Suppressive Shielding for Ha2ardous Munitions Production Operations" in Symposium on Processing Propellants, Explosives, and Ingredients, American Defense Preparedness Association (ADPA), Washington, D.C., 1977. 

Casey, Facility Design Reviews Program for Munitions Production Base Modernization and Expansion, Status Report , PATM 2178 (1975) 33) B.W. Jezek et al, Applications of Suppressive Shielding in Hazardous Operation Protection , Rept No EM-TR-76008, Edgewood Arsenal, APG (1975) 34) W.F. Nekevis et... 

Most current expl fills are blends of TNT with other ingredients, and are melt-cast loaded into bombs and warheads. Typically, several thousand pounds of the flaked blend are charged to a stirred melt kettle and heated to just above the melting point of TNT. It forms a mobile slurry when molten, and is poured mto the empty bomb or shell cases, where it solidifies. Additional ingredients such as Al may be added in the melt kettle, depending on the particular formulation being poured and the particular munition product... 

Safety, System Safety Program for Modernization and Expansion Projects," DRC-PBM Memorandum No. 385-3, Office of the Project Manager for Munitions Production Base Modernization and Expansion, Dover, NJ, April 1978. 

Basic floor design requirements that should be considered during initial design or modification of munitions production buildings are as follows ... 

The standard details will be given to architects and engineers as criteria or reference material for new construction or modification design for munitions production base modernization. 

Acknowledgement is made of the cooperation extended by Mr. Richard Mazinski, U.S. Army Munitions Production Base Modernization Agency, Department of the Army, and Mr. Morgan F. Jones, formerly with the U.S. Army Engineer Division, Huntsville. Their cooperation in furnishing information essential to this paper is appreciated. 

Army. 1984b. Database assessment of health and environmental effects of munition production waste products. Contract no. DE-AC05-849R21400. Frederick, MD U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, Fort Detrick. Document no. AD A145417. 

By contrast, the War Office was very much constrained by lack of industrial capacity. Of the 250 national factories created by the Ministry of Munitions in the First World War, only three were retained through the inter-war period, and these were held in reserve and not rehabilitated until 1936-7. Munitions production down to 1936 was shared between the three historic royal ordnance factories at Woolwich,... 

Illustrative Example 11.4 Estimating the Retardation of Trinitrotoluene Transport in Groundwater Problem Due to past munitions production and use, the explosive NAC, trinitrotoluene (TNT), occurs in a ground water at 0.1 pM. You need to evaluate this compound s mobility in this oxic aquifer knowing it has the characteristics shown below. Mineralogy 75% quartz, 20% feldspar, 5% illite, 0.2% organic matter (NOM) Density of aquifer material ps = 2.6 kg L"1... 

M.J. Small D.H. Rosenblatt, Munitions Production of Potential Concern as Waterborne Pollutants - Phase II , USAMBRDL Tech Rept No 7404 (1974) (AD 919031) 17) E.R. Hart,... 

However, the concentration of elemental phosphorus in effluents from industries that produce phosphorus compounds is much lower, compared to industries that do not use chemical conversion processes for producing final products (e.g., WP/F production). White phosphorus also enters water when treated or untreated effluents are released from munitions production facilities that use white phosphorus. Before water recycling measures were implemented at the Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas, the effluent water (phossy water) from the facility contained <53.4 mg/L of white phosphorus (Pearson et al. 1976). 

Army. 1974. Munitions production products of potential concern as waterborne pollutants - phase II. Aberdeen, MD U.S. Army Medical Bioengineering Research and Development Laboratory, 20-22. 

Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board has approved five groups of suppressive shields for protection of munitions production operations in US Army Ammunition Plants. Safety approved shields encompass seven different designs which range in size from a two foot diameter steel shell (Shield Group 6) to a ten foot diameter steel cylinder (Shield Group 3). 

A likely set of compounds to consider for similar assay development are the nitroaromatic compounds shown in Figure 1 which are related to nitrobenzene (1). As a class, nitroaromatic compounds are of environmental concern since, as Figure 1 shows, they have been documented at as many as 30 of the 818 final EPA National Priority List (NPL) of waste sites in the United States ( ). The nitroaromatics most frequently found as environmental contaminants are 2,4-dinitrotoluene (2) and 2,6-dinitrotoluene (3) used in plastics, dyes and munitions production nitrophenols (4,5) used in pesticides and munitions wastes such at... 

Environmental Restoration at a Munitions Production Site The problem is similar to that of contaminated media. It is unknown whether there may also be previously acceptable or unintentional disposal of unexploded ordnance at manufacturing sites as described in this book. 

---