Decontamination of Concrete and Granite Contaminated with Americium-243
Citation:
U.S. EPA. Decontamination of Concrete and Granite Contaminated with Americium-243. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-13/204, 2013.
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Through its Technology Testing and Evaluation Program (TTEP), NHSRC recently evaluated the performance of Environmental Alternatives, Inc.’s Rad-Release II (RRII) and Argonne National Laboratory’s SuperGel (ASG) intended specifically for decontamination of radiological contamination. These technologies were evaluated for their ability to decontaminate surfaces contaminated with radioactive americium from the surface of unpainted concrete and split face granite such as might result from terrorist use of a radiological dispersion device (RDD) or from a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) accident.
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