Under the direction of the U.S. Armya (TM)s Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) and mandated by Congress, the nation is destroying its chemical weapons stockpile. Over the past several years, the Army has requested several studies from the NRC to assist with the stockpile destruction. This study was requested to advise the CMA about the status of analytical instrumentation technology and systems suitable for monitoring airborne chemical warfare agents at chemical weapons disposal and storage facilities. The report presents an assessment of current monitoring systems used for airborne agent detection at CMA facilities and of the applicability and availability of innovative new technologies. It also provides a review of how new regulatory requirements would affect the CMAa (TM)s current agent monitoring procedures, and whether new measurement technologies are available and could be effectively incorporated into the CMAa (TM)s overall chemical agent monitoring strategies.
- ISBN10 0309097320
- ISBN13 9780309097321
- Publish Date 13 November 2005
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint National Academies Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 104
- Language English