| 摘要 |
An apparatus and method for the destruction of terrorist weapons, including explosives chemical and biological agents, by detonation in an enclosed double-walled steel explosion chamber (1) having its walls (3), access door (6) and floor filled with granular shock damping material (4). The chamber is vented through orificies into vent pipes (9) which converge in a manifold (10) which exhausts into an expansion tank or scrubber for cooling, testing, and environmental treatment of the explosion products. A weapon (13) to be destroyed is placed into the chamber with a donor explosive charge (16) and held in place by a disintegratable string hammock (17), along with one or more plastic polymer film bags (18) containing water. For use in destroying known or suspected chemical or biological weapons the donor charge is augmented with an oxidizing material such as potassium nitrate, and the resulting fireball is enhanced by powdered metal such as aluminum, to achieve an instantaneous pressure of 100 kilobars and instantaneous temperature of 3,000 degrees Celsius.
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