Teledyne-Commodore Enters Second Phase of Chemical Weapons Demilitarization Program
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Teledyne-Commodore, LLC has been notified that it has been selected to enter the second phase of the $40 million Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment (ACWA) program. The ACWA program is designed to find alternative technologies to incineration for the neutralization of chemical weapons.
The U.S. Army's Chemical and Biological Defense Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, announced the selection on Friday, May 1, 1998.
Under the ACWA timeline, Teledyne-Commodore hopes to receive funding in late June 1998, to demonstrate its integrated agent and energetics system. The system has been successfully tested at the U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, in the destruction of energetic materials contained within the chemical munitions stockpile.
Congress has mandated that the demonstration testing of all of the alternate technologies be completed by December 1998.
Teledyne-Commodore announced last year that tests in government-approved surety laboratories indicated that the solvated electron technology (SET(TM)) process neutralizes all components of assembled chemical weapons -- the propellants, explosives, chemical agent, and metal casings and waste products.
Gerald Watson, Teledyne-Commodore president and chief executive officer, said he believes that the SET(TM) process meets the Congressional mandate of a non-thermal complete solution that neutralizes and destroys all agents and energetics, as well as decontaminates the metal components and waste products.
Since last October, Teledyne-Commodore has developed and tested two proprietary processes, ammonia fluid jet cutting and ammonia washout of explosive components. These two technologies allow access to both agent and energetic materials and their subsequent destruction using the solvated electron technology.
"We believe that, with these breakthroughs in handling chemical weapons, Teledyne-Commodore has developed an integrated solution designed to neutralize and destroy known chemical agents and the explosives contained in these munitions," said Watson.
Teledyne-Commodore, a 50-50 joint venture of Allegheny Teledyne Incorporated (NYSE: ALT) and Commodore Applied Technologies, Inc. (Amex: CXI), was formed in August 1996. It employs Commodore's proprietary, patented SET(TM) process, a non-thermal chemical process that works at ambient temperatures and low pressures.
SOURCE Teledyne-Commodore, LLC
CO: Teledyne-Commodore, LLC; Allegheny Teledyne Incorporated; Commodore Applied Technologies, Inc.
ST: Alabama, Maryland
IN: ENV
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05/04/98 08:17 EDT prnewswire.com
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