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To: Joe Copia who wrote (68)	10/5/1998 12:35:00 PM
From: gambler	of 73

Here's a very interesting article showing the potential of this chamber. capecodonline.com Below I highlighted a section from the above article that requires extra attention. Some staggering numbers. Here's the real rub: Open-air detonation would cost about $50,000. The Donovan Demolition chamber would cost about $1.4 million. Even that gaping price differential should be no big deal to the mother agency of cost overruns, but for this problem: The EPA estimates that there are somewhere between 5,000 and 8,000 military artillery ranges containing unexploded ordnance in the U.S., covering up to 50 million acres. And the Defense Department hasn't finished taking inventory - there may be a lot more. Said EPA official Ken Shuster in a memo, "Ranges and buried munitions represent the largest cleanup program in the U.S." If 5,000 bases blow up their old ordnance, at $50,000 a base, that's a $250 million price tag. A pittance, in Pentagon terms - barely a wing on a B-1 bomber. But if each of those bases needs a $1.4 million detonation chamber, the price rockets to $7 billion. And some bases will have a whole lot more unexploded ordnance than Camp Edwards.

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