Decontamination After Radiation Exposure: Simpler Than You May Think : Shots - Health News Dozens of people at and around the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant reportedly have been decontaminated ...

FILE -A radiation monitor indicates 131.00 mSv per hour near Unit 3 and 4 reactor buildings at Tokyo Electric Power Co.,'s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station in Okuma ...

Uncontrolled, large-scale exposure to radiation has been caused by the detonation of atomic bombs over Japan, fallout from atomic-bomb tests, nuclear-reactor accidents, and the release of material ...

Radiation still leaks from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in northeast Japan after last year's meltdowns. ... There's no sign of decontamination at Yoshi-ichi Takeda's small dairy farm.

Decontamination work In response to the report, Japan’s environment ministry said it had conducted further decontamination work and would enhance radiation monitoring at the stadium, where the ...

Evaluation of a Hand-held Far-ultraviolet Radiation Device for Decontamination of Clostridium Difficile and Other Healthcare-associated Pathogens ...

Troops from the U.S., Thailand and Japan, specially trained in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense, or CBRN, led the decontamination drill. No real radiation was involved, but ...

So what's involved in decontamination, ... been decontaminated within the 12-mile evacuation zone around the plant after Geiger counters picked up evidence of radiation exposure.

Table 1 provides a summary of the results of disinfection of pathogens in hospital rooms using the Sterilray device. For MRSA (n =27 rooms and 106 culture sites) and C. difficile (n =67 rooms and ...