Patent ID: 8047978

Claim:
A semi-continuous system for remediating chemical munitions, comprising: (a) at least two side-by-side containment vessels, each containment vessel comprising: first and second hardened cylindrical shells, each of the cylindrical shells having a wall thickness, an interior surface, and a sealing flange disposed about an open end of the shell, wherein the open ends of each shell are disposed opposite each other, and wherein the first shell is fixed and the second shell is axially moveable horizontally with respect to the first shell; a remote clamping system for engaging and surrounding the flange of each of the first and second shell thereby sealing the first shell to the second shell; at least one electrical feed-through means; inlet conduit means for receiving waste treatment reactant chemicals; outlet conduit means for removing a liquid effluent; and (b) a waste treatment system fluidly communicating with the inlet and outlet conduit means of the two side-by-side containment vessels, the waste system, comprising: a sealed reactant vessel comprising the waste treatment reactant chemicals; a canned-motor pump; a closed loop recirculating system in fluid communication with the canned-motor pump, the seal reactant vessel and the inlet and outlet conduit means of each of the two containment vessels; and (c) means for explosively opening a munition within the two side-by-side containment vessels.