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Reporters from The Moscow News were recently given unprecedented access to observe the destruction of chemical warfare (CW) agents at the Mardykovo Chemical Weapons Disposal Plant (CWDP) in the Kirov region, central Russia.
"Each State Party during transportation, sampling, storage and destruction of chemical weapons, shall assign the highest priority to ensuring the safety of people and to protecting the environment.
Each State Party shall transport, sample, store and destroy chemical weapons in accordance with its national standards for safety and emissions. So when the Maradykovo plant was launched in September 2006, the Vx destruction process was organized in full compliance with technological standards. Meanwhile, international watchdog organizations admit that our technology is the safest of the 50 known methods of chemical weapon, destruction."
In all fairness, that statement produced an encouraging yet disturbing effect. That especially applied to MN's photo correspondent Dmitry Khrupov, who was to face the "No. 1 chemical killer" at the plant's "holiest of holies,"' and take pictures of the process of dismantling and decontamination of large air bombs. Dmitry was apparently calm during a mandatory medical checkup until he was asked to step on a scale for a weigh in. "What for?" he asked. "You will understand when you return," the doctor said. That put Dmitry on his guard, and he started carefully inspecting the protective clothing that he was about to put on, feeling each item and element of a multi-layered suit with his fingers. First, special underwear, then some carbonaceous fabric garment, and then a rubber coated CBK outfit with a gas mask. It took him about 20 minutes to put that on.
"Perhaps people who work here have gotten accustomed to all that gear and equipment, but at one point I thought that I was suffocating and generally felt funny, especially when I walked down a long corridor leading to the entrance. I felt as though I was descending to the Underworld," Dmitry said after he returned from the dismantling shop.
As a matter of fact, Dmitry walked along a gallery raised several meters above the ground and leading from an administrative building to a disassembly shop. The "air passage," completely insulated and self
Химическое оружие: убить убийцу
Корреспонденты "Moscow News" недавно получили беспрецедентную возможность понаблюдать за уничтожением химического оружия (ХВ) на Заводе по Уничтожению Химического Оружия в Мардыково, Кировская область, Россия.
"Каждое государство-участник должно предоставить самый высокий приоритет обеспечению безопасности людей и защите окружающей среды во время транспортировки, взятия образцов, хранения и уничтожения химических средств, Каждое государство-участник должно транспортировать, брать образцы, хранить и утилизировать химические средства в соответствии со своими национальными стандартами по безопасности выбросов. Так, когда завод в Мардыково начал работу в сентябре 2006, процесс уничтожения вещества VХ был организован в полном соответствии с технологичес
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