Ecological Risks Associated with the Destruction of Chemical Weapons / edited by Vladimir M. Kolodkin, Wolfgang Ruck.

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Chemical Weapons Convention after the First Review Conference -- Implementation of Russia’s Obligation to Destroy chemical Weapons in the Udmurt Republic -- The CWC after the Review Conference -- Session I: Prediction -- Evaluation of State of Environment and Monitoring of Hazardous Facilities -- Prediction of Quantitative Assessments of Effects on Nature from Potential Accidents at Chemical Warfare Agent Facilities -- Ecological Risks of Toxic Substances Combustion -- Risk Assessment of Chemical Weapons Influence on Ecosystems as the Whole -- Health and Environmental Risks Associated with the Destruction of Chemical Weapons -- Ecological Risks Analysis for the Chemical Weapons Destruction Facility -- An Approach to Assessment of Chemical Risk on the Basis of Generation of Time Series -- 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) -- Analysis of Ecological Risks within an Environmental Monitoring System -- Dechlorination of Recalcitrant Polychlorinated Contaminants Using Ball Milling -- Ecological Risk Assessment for Ascontaining Chemical Warfare Agents — Status and Perspectives -- Session II: Monitoring -- Personal Monitoring of Old Chemical Weapons’ Dismantling Operations at Poelkapelle (Belgium) -- Radio-Ecological Monitoring of the Environment -- Ion Mobility Spectrometry for Monitoring the Destruction of Chemical Warfare Agents -- Identification of Chemical Neutralization of Products of Organophosphorus Chemical Warfare Agents -- Environmental and Health Monitoring in Relation to the Demolition of the Former CWPF at JSC Khimprom, Novocheboksarsk, Russia -- Vapor Validation of Monitoring Systems for Detection of Trace Levels of Chemical Warfare Agents in Air -- Tacis Project “The Development of an Environmental and Health Monitoring System Related to the Demilitarization of the Chemical Weapons Facility at the Detached Plant Nr. 4 of OAO Khimprom, Novocheboksarsk” and Possible Implications for Future Russian Demilitarization Activities at CWPFS -- Toxicological and Public Health Aspects of Two-Stage Technology of Chemical Warfare Agents Destruction in Russia -- Chemical and Biological-Ecological Aspects of Risk Assessment for Lewisite Destruction -- Risk Mapping and Risk Assessment for Suspected Chemical Weapons Burial Sites on the Former Military Training Area Döberitzer Heide (Germany) -- About Evaluation Practice of Emergency Environmental Risks of Chemically Dangerous Facilities -- Risk Assessment and Safety Management at Chemical Facilities with the Use of New Information Technologies -- On the Analysis of Environmental Risks Associated with the Possible Leakage of Chemical Warfare Agents During Transportation and Disposal of Munitions -- Ecological Risks and Ecological Insurance in Russia (in Connection with the Problem of Chemical Weapons Destruction) -- Insurance of Risk of Environmental Contamination During Destruction of Chemical Weapons -- Session III: Prevention -- About Some Risk Assessment Problems Associated with Hazardous Facilities Exploitation -- Revised Airborne Exposure Limits for Chemical Warfare Agents -- Analysis of Technologies for Lewisite Destruction -- New Understanding on Pathogenesis of Delayed Effects of Rvx Low-Dose Chronic Exposure -- Health State and Hormone Status Among Residents of Kizner Respectively Working and Not-working at Arsenal of Chemical Weapons -- Evaluation of Embryotoxic and Teratogenic Effects of Final Products of Organophosphorus Chemical Warfare Agents (CWA) Destruction -- Health and Environmental Monitoring at the Area of Protective Measures in the Vicinity of Locating Chemical Weapons Storage and Destruction Facilities -- The Use of Pupillometry for Evaluating the Functional State of Persons Who Worked with Organophosphorus Chemical Warfare Agents -- Session IV Public Outreach -- Participation of the Public in Licensing Procedures for and During Operation of Hazardous Facilities.

The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and their Destruction provides for the elimination of chemical weapons arsenals amassed during the Cold War. The easier-said-than-done task of removing these deadly weapons, however, poses huge environmental problems. This book is the compendium of the workshop on the "Ecological Risks Associated with the Destruction of Chemical Weapons", hosted by the University of Lüneburg in October 2003, which brought the former enemies NATO and Russia together to discuss, reflect on, and exchange their experiences in the laudable mission of environmentally friendly disposal of chemical weapons. This four-day workshop received contributions from 57 experts from North America, Russia, and European countries. Most of them are recognized authorities in the field of chemical weapons disposal as well as in related fields. The speeches by those who share the burden of this terrible undertaking concentrated on cleaning up contaminated sites, the ethics, political and international law aspects of the destruction of chemical weapons, and on issues related to human health, pathogenesis, toxicity, and exposure to the polluted environment. Contributions were also made on lewisite detection, risk prevention, insurance, safety, monitoring of old chemical weapons destruction as well as public awareness for this problem.

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