The story of the terrible tragedy that ensued in the aftermath of the earthquake that struck northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011 is well-known. The earthquake, measuring nine on the Richter scale, ...

Two research groups design a plasma (an ionized gas) reactor maintained by microwaves that makes it possible to decontaminate waters with high concentrations of dye. Plasma is an ionized gas -- that ...

Testing of a new high-performance water decontamination system has started at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. When in full operation, the new system should increase water treatment capacity while ...

Araceli Martinez sits in her living room while her two grandsons, Damian and Donovan, drag each other across the room on a skateboard. She looks out a window and into the field of hops in front of her ...

A recent study published in Nature Communications examines a novel type of “engineering living material” that can be used to decontaminate water by converting organic pollutants into harmless ...

Incidents involving weapons of mass destruction (WMD) require special consideration involving decontamination. Many responders believe that the standard wet decontamination as taught during our ...

Among the many avenues that viruses can use to infect humans, drinking water may pose only a tiny risk for spreading certain viruses like the novel coronavirus. However, in cases where there is ...

Water decontamination system has been temporarily shut down at the Fukushima nuclear plant due to a defect in its Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) on Tuesday. Tokyo: The operator of Japan's ...

Water-assisted pulsed light processing could be a non-chemical alternative to chlorine washing to decontaminate blueberries, according to researchers. Blueberries inoculated with E.coli O157:H7 or ...