SECONDARY WASTE GENERATION AT CHEMICAL AGENT DISPOSAL FACILITIES

Secondary Waste Generation at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities... 

SECONDARY WASTE GENERATION AT CHEMICAL AGENT DISPOSAL FACILITIES... 

CMA has estimated the types and quantities of secondary wastes projected to be in storage at the end of operations for each of the five chemical agent disposal facilities included in this study (Table 1-3). These quantities include wastes generated during operations but exclude wastes for which an on-site or off-site disposal option is currently available and is being used. Table 1-3 also does not include closure wastes. Several of the smaller individual waste streams cited earlier are combined in this summary for reporting purposes. The total estimated secondary waste stream inventory at the end of operations based on current practices is... 

Spent activated carbon is generated and is accumulating at each of the five chemical agent disposal facilities. It represents one of the largest secondary waste streams currently projected to remain in storage at the end of munitions destruction operations. 

The material intliis section is supplemented by material in a previous National Research Council report (NRC, 2007), which addressed four chemical agent disposal facihty sites in the continental United States that use incineration technology and one site that uses neutralization technology, all of them operated under the authority of the CMA. The regulatory requirements and the types of secondary wastes that will be generated at the two ACWA facilities being studied here are very similar to those at the CMA facilities. 

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