Nearly 15 years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, air radiation doses have dropped significantly in Fukushima Prefecture, ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Response from medical and emergency personnel during the recent Boston Marathon attacks has been heralded as one of the best because of the planning and practice of ...

PERHAPS sparked by the devastating natural disasters and terrorist attacks the nation has experienced in the recent past, a renewed emphasis has been placed on ensuring that decontamination procedures ...

On March 14, Kevin Hommema, an aerosol scientist at Battelle, a Columbus, Ohio-based research and development nonprofit, sent an email to his boss with a new idea: What if Battelle repurposed an older ...

The main purpose of decontamination at a hazardous materials emergency is to limit the spread of contaminants from the release area, or "hot zone," to include the cleaning of responders and their ...

An industrial chemical accident. An attack with a chemical warfare agent. Either of these situations can leave many people in acute need of decontamination. Until recently, the US government’s ...

A semi-automated and patented process for decontaminating and recycling radioactively contaminated heat exchanger tubes has been successfully demonstrated at the Ignalina nuclear power plant in ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- A sprayable decontamination slurry, developed by scientists at the U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center is entering the next stage of its development and will ...

SteraMist iHP Corporate Service is prepared for rapid deployment, delivering decontamination fogging services for a variety of applications, such as emergency containment, routine shutdowns, facility ...

The Japanese government says 20 workers at the disabled Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant have been decontaminated after exposure to radioactive material. Dozens more, at least, have reportedly been ...

PERHAPS sparked by the devastating natural disasters and terrorist attacks the nation has experienced in the recent past, a renewed emphasis has been placed on ensuring that decontamination procedures ...