CWD 2009
Monday 18th to Thursday 21st May 2009, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
As in previous years the technical programme will be grouped into sessions
of either three or four presentations each of 30 minute duration including
Q&A. Presentations are particularly invited on the progress that
has been made in the last ten years, the key achievements, the lessons
learnt and the plans/hopes for the future in each area.
The subject areas will include:
- Innovative technologies and services – case studies of
lessons learnt and future direction, measuring, mitigating,
managing and reducing pollution
- Managing Liability and Legacy Issues – e.g. closedown of
former chemical weapons demilitarisation facilities and
associated issues of site remediation
- Personnel Safety and Health – hazard modelling, risk
assessment, exposure levels, detection, monitoring,
protection, casualty evacuation etc.
- Laboratory and Analytical
- Facilitating demilitarisation – citizen involvement, public
health and the protection of the environment
- Challenges posed in the running of Chemical Demilitarisation
Facilities – practical considerations, lessons learnt
- Facilitating demilitarisation – citizen involvement, public
health, protection of the environment, role of NGOs
Possible topics for facilitated discussion
- Waste Management from chemical demilitarisation
operations (highlighting issues that affect discharges to<
the environment)
- Recovery of Chemical Weapons from rivers and seas
- Advantages and disadvantages of detonation chambers
- Potential application of CW developed technologies and
facilities for other industrial waste
- Criteria for decontamination of equipment and facilities
used in CWD operations
- Lessons learned from CWD programmes including closure
- Challenges of dealing with legacy sites bearing in mind
there is no international standard.
- What is the future use of legacy sites? What steps should
be taken today to meet the environmental challenges of
tomorrow?
Possible topics for Workshops
- Incineration technologies for CWD
- Waste Management from chemical demilitarisation
operations (highlighting issues that affect discharges to
the environment)
- Determination of acute exposure levels, methods and
difficulties
- Recovery of Chemical Weapons from rivers and seas
- Criteria for decontamination of equipment and facilities
used in CWD operations
- Cost/risk benefit analysis in management of risks
- Coping with environmental legislation
- Ordnance identification and familiarisation
- OCW lessons learned and not learned
- Advantages and Disadvantages of detonation chambers
- Agent monitoring, present and future challenges
- Potential application of CW developed technologies and
facilities for other industrial waste
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