Efficacy of Decontamination Options for Sensitive Equipment-Related Materials Contaminated with Chemical Warfare Agents
Citation:
Oudejans, L. Efficacy of Decontamination Options for Sensitive Equipment-Related Materials Contaminated with Chemical Warfare Agents. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, 2023.
Impact/Purpose:
A release of a chemical warfare agent (CWA) will create an acute and significant exposure risk to the public as well as remediation contractors who would be tasked to cleanup a contaminated site. It would require decontamination of the contaminated area which may hold sensitive equipment or other artifacts of historic or high value. Such effort requires high compatibility with the decontaminant in addition to high efficacy. This dataset contains results from research that was conducted (2010-2022) to measure the decontamination efficacy of various decontaminants on sensitive equipment related materials contaminated with various CWAs. The dataset is available at radar.epa.gov and will inform the EPA response community and other Federal, State, Tribal and Local agencies on remediation options of sensitive equipment following a CWA release.
Description:
A release of a chemical warfare agent (CWA) will create an acute and significant exposure risk to the public as well as remediation contractors who would be tasked to cleanup a contaminated site. It would require decontamination of the contaminated area which may hold sensitive equipment or other artifacts of historic or high value. Such effort requires high compatibility with the decontaminant in addition to high efficacy. This dataset contains results from EPA’s Homeland Security Research Program (2010-2022) that was conducted to measure the decontamination efficacies of various decontaminants on sensitive equipment related materials contaminated with various CWAs. This dataset is accessible at radar.epa.gov. A widget has been developed to facilitate in the search of the efficacy data.