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Ecological Risks Associated with the Destruction of Chemical Weapons

Proceedings of the NATO ARW on Ecological Risks Associated with the Destruction of Chemical Weapons, Lüneburg, Germany, from 22-26 October 2003

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Vladimir M. Kolodkin

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

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  2. Wolfgang Ruck

    1. Institute of Ecology and Environmental Chemistry, University of Lüneburg, Germany

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  • Factual, absorbing, yet scientific reports on the first-hand experience of working on the disposal and destruction of chemical weapons
  • Various issues surrounding the technical aspects of making the disposal and destruction of chemical weapons reliably safe and environment-friendly
  • International cooperation on a highly scientific, sensitive and complex matter, reflected in a readable compendium of essays
  • A lesser-known aspect of environmental chemistry, yet a very important one, treated by many renowned international experts in the field of weapons disposal
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Nato Security through Science Series C: (NASTC)

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Table of contents (38 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-4
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  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
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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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