Ecological Risks Associated with the Destruction of Chemical Weapons

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-4

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Chemical Weapons Convention after the First Review Conference

      • Jiri Matousek

      Pages 7-14

   3. Implementation of Russia’s Obligation to Destroy chemical Weapons in the Udmurt Republic

      • Anatoly A. Fominykh

      Pages 15-23

   4. The CWC after the Review Conference

      • Walter Krutzsch

      Pages 25-38

3. Session I: Prediction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39

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   2. Evaluation of State of Environment and Monitoring of Hazardous Facilities

      • Mikhail Kurguzkin

      Pages 41-44

   3. Prediction of Quantitative Assessments of Effects on Nature from Potential Accidents at Chemical Warfare Agent Facilities

      • Vladimir Kolodkin, Aleksey Murin

      Pages 45-55

   4. Ecological Risks of Toxic Substances Combustion

      • Alexey M. Lipanov, Mikhail A. Korepanov, Zufar A. Tukhvatullin

      Pages 57-63

   5. Risk Assessment of Chemical Weapons Influence on Ecosystems as the Whole

      • V. N. Lystsov, N. V. Murzin, A. A. Bykov

      Pages 65-74

   6. Health and Environmental Risks Associated with the Destruction of Chemical Weapons

      • Jiri Matousek

      Pages 75-83

   7. Ecological Risks Analysis for the Chemical Weapons Destruction Facility

      • T. Shvetsova-Shilovskaya

      Pages 85-89

   8. An Approach to Assessment of Chemical Risk on the Basis of Generation of Time Series

      • Aleksey Murin

      Pages 91-98

   9. The Complex Approach in Appraisal of the Conditions of Natural Ecosystems in the «Valley» Zone Used for the Storage of Chemical Weapons (Pochep, Bryansk Region)

      • V. P. Ivanov, I. A. Baljasnicov, V. P. Sheluho, I. N. Glazun, D. I. Nartov

      Pages 99-105

   10. Analysis of Ecological Risks within an Environmental Monitoring System

       • Nicolay Zabrodine, Alexander Churakov, Ioulia Bouchmakina, Sverre Langard

       Pages 107-110

   11. Dechlorination of Recalcitrant Polychlorinated Contaminants Using Ball Milling

       • Volker Birke, Jörg Mattik, Dietlind Runne, Helmut Benning, Dragan Zlatovic

       Pages 111-127

   12. Ecological Risk Assessment for Ascontaining Chemical Warfare Agents — Status and Perspectives

       • Tina Vollerthun, Wolfgang Spyra

       Pages 129-133

4. Session II: Monitoring

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. Personal Monitoring of Old Chemical Weapons’ Dismantling Operations at Poelkapelle (Belgium)

      • Herbert C. De Bisschop, Christel Meert, Bart R. Smedts, Christiaan P. Perneel

      Pages 137-152

   3. Radio-Ecological Monitoring of the Environment

      • Irina Fedotova

      Pages 153-156

1 2 Prof. Dr. Vladimir Mikhailovitsh Kolodkin , Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Ruck 1 Institute of Natural and Technogenic Disasters, Udmurt State University, Izhevsk (Russia), 2 Institute of Ecology and Environmental Chemistry, University Lüneburg (Germany) During the Cold War a whole arsenal of deadly chemical weapons was allowed to build up on both sides of the ideological divide. Happily, today the problems are reversed. Expertise is now required in the field of safe and environment-friendly disposal of chemical weapons and cleaning up of contaminated sites all around the world, but not least in the ex-Soviet-led countries. The participants and speakers to the NATO-Russia advanced research workshop on the “Ecological Risks Associated with the Destruction of nd th Chemical Weapons”, hosted by the University of Lüneburg on 22 - 26 October, 2003, therefore, came from many different parts of the world. Of the eight countries represented at the workshop, two were ex-Eastern- Block, and six were Western countries. Yet the West was by no means overrepresented. On the contrary, the Russian expert-speaker contingent, with 33 participants, did justice to the size of their country – and to their chemical-weapons problem – and provided the majority of active participants. In all, there were 57 participants, of which 11 dispatched from the TACIS project “The development of the chemical weapons” facility at the detached plant No 4 of OAO Khimprom, Novocheboksarsk.

• WHO
• combustion
• contaminants
• ecosystem
• ecosystems
• environment
• environmental contamination
• human health
• natural ecosystems
• risk assessment
• safety
• toxicity
• ecotoxicology
• quality control, reliability, safety and risk

• Institute of Natural and Technogenic Disasters, Udmurt State University, Izhevsk, Russia

  Vladimir M. Kolodkin

• Institute of Ecology and Environmental Chemistry, University of Lüneburg, Germany

  Wolfgang Ruck

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