decontamination News
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U.S. EPA and its Federal Partners Advance Decontamination Techniques
Today (Feb. 12,2014) the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), along with federal partners, announced the results of a multi-year project called Bio-Response Operational Testing and Evaluation (BOTE) that tested and evaluated decontamination techniques for a biological incident. “The information gained from this project gives communities tested decontamination methods and real world ...
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Lead Decontamination Now Planned for Surrounding Area of Notre Dame Cathedral
Earlier this summer, police in Paris reported high levels of lead on the roads and gardens in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral which was devastated by fire on April 15th, 2019. Last month, cleanup work inside the cathedral itself was halted for safety reasons due to hundreds of tons of lead which melted in the fire. This week, Paris authorities have blocked off the surrounding area of the ...
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March issue of Dounreay news published
The March issue of the site newspaper, Dounreay News, has now been published and is also available online. The front cover features the building crane from the redundant decontamination building which was recently lifted down off its rails. The full story and more photos can be found on the centre pages. Other stories include: Celebrating our apprentices 4,000 times cleaner Understanding ...
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LabLogic now provides a new and effective Iodine Decontamination Gel
Decontamination of Iodine radioisotopes is a notoriously difficult task. I-131 ablation treatment rooms are often cordoned off for many days after contamination causing a drastic loss of productivity. To counteract this problem, LabLogic are introducing Bind-It, made by Laboratory Technologies Inc. Bind-It has been engineered for the effective removal of Iodine by ‘lifting’ ...
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Why a decontamination step is mandatory to ensure the success of a Circular Economy
It is essential to decontaminate waste with hazardous components to avoid any contamination of the recyclable waste and the recirculation of waste with substances that are hazardous to human health or the ...
By Eurits
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EPA To Take Public Input on Draft Plan to Decontaminate and Dismantle PCB Processing Facility in Fort Edward, NY
The EPA has made a plan available for public review that outlines how GE will dismantle and decontaminate its 110 acre sediment processing facility that was built to support the dredging of the Hudson River PCBs superfund site. The plan, called the Processing Facility Demobilization and Restoration Plan, is required by the 2006 legal agreement between General Electric and EPA to conduct the ...
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EPA Hosts 2013 International Decontamination Research and Development Conference
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold its 2013 International Decontamination Research and Development Conference on November 5-7 in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. This year’s conference will focus on research around the decontamination of indoor and outdoor areas, and materials contaminated with biological, chemical, and radiological agents. Richard Danzig, Vice-Chair ...
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KI Canada Expands Radiation Decontamination Preparedness
KI Canada is pleased to announce that it has been approved as a marketing and distribution agent for Radiation Decontamination Solutions, LLC, of Oldsmar, Florida. “This is a significant step forward for KI Canada,” says Tom Gottlieb, president of KI Canada. “For several years now we have offered crisis protect products to international markets and the addition of the RadDecon line greatly ...
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Meth Lab Decontamination
EFT (EnviroFoam Technologies™) Announces the Introduction of Crystal Clean Methamphetamine Decontaminant Solution. Huntsville, Ala. -- EFT announced today a technological breakthrough in Clandestine Meth Lab cleanup. EFT just finished a year long study involving over fifteen meth lab cleanup sites across the nation using Crystal Clean. In every case, Crystal Clean neutralized ...
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February performance report published online
Dounreay's performance report for February has been published. This issue features the successful removal of the building crane from Dounreay’s redundant decontamination and waste handling facility. The publication also highlights the film showing camera footage obtained during the project to drain the liquid sodium coolant from the Prototype Fast Reactor. Also provided are at-a-glance ...
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Refinery Provides Workers With Total Safety From Decontamination
Background: A top international oil and gas refinery on France’s western coast recently initiated a €400 million facility upgrade at their refinery to capture profitable new markets in low-sulfur fuels that meet evolving European Union specifications. This substantial investment will significantly improve the refinery’s profitability and secure its long-term future. Producing ...
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Genano delivers Air Decontamination Units to hospitals in China
Genano with our local partner, Jiangsu Holly Environmental Technology Industrial Co.,Ltd., in China, fight against the fast spreading coronavirus epidemic, by delivering Air Decontamination Units to the hospitals in the area where the crisis has taken place. “We received an urgent request from Government owned hospitals in China. The situation required fast reaction in our end; the ...
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Filtration Systems for Nuclear Decommissioning
Porvair Filtration Group is a specialist supplier of clean-up filtration systems for nuclear decommissioning and decontamination. As processes are developed to deal with nuclear legacy waste and strict legislation defines storage conditions, Porvair has developed solutions to meet increasingly complex filtration problems associated with decommissioning and decontamination facilities. Porvair ...
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News Flash: The Results are in!
As reported in the January/February 2011 edition of Resource Recycling, in 2009 Hawker Corporation participated in a research project with Okaloosa County, Florida to remove contaminants from processed yard and storm debris. During the demonstration in 2009 the Airlift Separator and CEC Screening system processed aged material with compost characteristics. The larger material: overs, and ...
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Genoil Receives Breakthrough Patent for Sand Decontamination & Gives Oil Spill Update
CALGARY, ALBERTA - Genoil (TSX VENTURE: GNO)(OTCBB: GNOLF) a global leader in petroleum technology announced today that it has been awarded a major patent for it"s breakthrough sand decontamination technology by the United States patent office. The patent recognized the unique positioning of Genoil for Gulf of Mexico disaster cleanup. Genoil provides the best commercial, economic and ...
By Genoil Inc.
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Hospitals worldwide are disinfecting air from SARS-CoV-2 with electric air decontamination technology
During the rapid demand peak for isolation rooms and effective air decontamination to fight COVID-19, a large amount of hospitals worldwide have learned that the most effective way to decontaminate air is with advanced electric decontamination. Implementing safety measures on all important fronts is crucial for the safety of hospital staff and patients. Increased cleaning, hand hygiene, usage ...
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sinTion eliminates even the Corona virus
The waste treatment unit sinTion on offer from our subsidiary Christof Systems is the perfect solution for disposing of infectious waste simply, quickly and safely. A patented process disinfects and sterilises medical waste. A new assessment has confirmed that sinTion is an effective method for decontaminating used cannulas by eliminating all germs in resistance categories A, B and C in the most ...
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ASTM Homeland Security Committee Member Presents at Tokyo Conference
On March 4, Peter J. Chiaro Jr., a member of ASTM International Committee E54 on Homeland Security Applications, presented at the Seminar on Standards and Criteria for Radiation Measurement and Protection Pertaining to Radioactive Decontamination. The seminar, sponsored by the Japanese Standards Association, took place in Tokyo, Japan. The seminar audience included 40 members of the Japanese ...
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CBI Polymers receives export award from the U.S. Department of Commerce
Honolulu, Hawaii, August 9, 2011 — CBI Polymers Inc., received an export achievement award from the U.S. Department of Commerce on August 1, 2011 for its philanthropic work to provide aid in the clean-up efforts of Hungary’s toxic mud spill last year and the more recent nuclear catastrophe in Japan. Presented by Suresh Kumar, Assistant Secretary for Trade Promotion and Director ...
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New Decontamination Product Approved for Use
METIS Scientific has announced that its product DG Sure has been approved for use in some nuclear plants in the UK. DG Sure, was formulated specifically to adhere to the UK’s disposal regulatory requirements and therefore could be used at other facilities throughout the UK and EU. The product, is void of chelators and has low levels of halides and sulfides. The product has almost a year of ...
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