Ecological Risks Associated with the Destruction of Chemical Weapons

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.

Contents; Contributing Authors; Welcome Address by the Federal Minister of Defence Dr. Peter Struck; Foreword Prof. Dr. Vladimir Mikhailovich Kolodkin, Prof. Dr.-lng. Wolfgang Ruck ; Introduction; CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION AFTER THE FIRST REVIEW CONFERENCE; Jiri Matousek , IMPLEMENTATION OF RUSSIA’S OBLIGATIONS TO DESTROY CHEMICAL WEAPON IN UDMURTIA REPUBLIC; Anatoly A.Fominykh; THE CWC AFTER THE REVIEW CONFERENCE; Walter Krutzsch; Ecological Risks Associated with the Destruction of Chemical Weapons; Session I: Prediction; EVALUATION OF STATE OF ENVIRONMENT AND MONITORING OF HAZARDOUS FACILITIES; Mikhail Kurguzkin, PREDICTION OF QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS OF EFFECTS ON NATURE FROM POTENTIAL ACCIDENTS AT CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT FACILITIES; Vladimir Kolodkin, Aleksey Murin, ECOLOGICAL RISKS OF TOXIC SUBSTANCES COMBUSTION; Alexey M. Lipanov et al ;RISK ASSESSMENT OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS INFLUENCE ON ECOSYSTEMS AS THE WHOLE V. N. Lystsov et al , HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS; Jiri Matousek , ECOLOGICAL RISKS ANALYSIS FOR THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS DESTRUCTION FACILITY; T. Shvetsova-Shilovskaya , AN APPROACH TO ASSESSMENT OF CHEMICAL RISK ON THE BASIS OF GENERATION OF TIME SERIES; Aleksey Murin , THE COMPLEX APPROACH IN APPRAISAL OF THE CONDITIONS OF NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS IN THE ZONE > USED FOR THE STORAGE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS (POCHEP, BRYANSK REGION); V. P. Ivanov et al , ANALYSIS OF ECOLOGICAL RISKS WITHIN AN ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING SYSTEM Nicolay Zabrodine et al, DECHLORINATION OF RECALCITRANT POLYCHLORINATED CoNTAMINANTS USING BALL MILLING; Volker Birke et al,; ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT FOR AS-CONTAINING CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS - STATUS AND PERSPECTIVES ; Tina Vollerthun, Wolfgang Spyra Session II: Monitoring; PERSONAL MONITORING OF OLD CHEMICALWEAPONS DISMANTLING OPERATIONS AT POELKAPELLE (BELGIUM); Herbert C. De Bisschop et al, RADIO-ECOLOGICAL MONITORING OF THE ENVIRONMENT; Irina Fedotova , ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETRY FOR MONITORING THE DESTRUCTION OF CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; Herbert H. Hill, Wes E. Steiner, IDENTIFICATION OF CHEMICAL NEUTRALIZATION OF PRODUCTS OF ORGANOPHOSPHORUS CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; Elena Saveljeva et al, ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH MONITORING IN RELATION TO THE DEMOLITION OF THE FORMER CWPF AT JSC KHIMPROM NOVOCHEBOKSARSK, RUSSIA; Tatyana G. Kudankina et al, VAPOR VALIDATION OF MONITORING SYSTEMS FOR DETECTION OF TRACE LEVELS OF CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS IN AIR; Joseph Padayhag , TACIS PROJECT ,'THEDEVELOPMENT OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH MONITORJNG 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; Thomas Stock , TOXICOLOGICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH ASPECTS OF TWO-STAGE TECHNOLOGY OF CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS DESTRUCTION IN RUSSIA; Andrey Radilov, CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL-ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF RISK ASSESSMENT FOR LEWISITE DESTRUCTION; Leonid Ionov et al, RISK MAPPING AND RISK ASSESSMENT FOR SUSPECTED CHEMICAL WEAPONS BuRIAL SITES ON THE FORMER MILITARY TRAINING AREA DÖBERITZER HEIDE (GERMANY); Kay Winkelmann et al, ABOUT EVALUATION PRACTICE OF EMERGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS OF CHEMICALLY DANGEROUS FACILITIES; Gennadiy Arbusov, Boris Laskin, RISK ASSESSMENT AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT AT CHEMICAL FACILITIES WITH THE USE OF NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES; Alexander Egorov, Tatiana Savitskaya, ON THE ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE POSSIBLE LEAKAGE OF CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS DURING TRANSPORTATION AND DISPOSAL OF MUNITIONS; Leonid Vasilyev, ECOLOGICAL RISKS AND ECOLOGICAL INSURANCE IN RUSSIA (IN