An innovative water decontamination technology tested recently at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has been selected for further development. The Enhanced Contact Plasma Reactor completed a two-week ...

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 ...

The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said Monday it has switched on a key decontamination system that cleans radiation-tainted water used to cool the site's damaged reactors. Last ...

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 ...

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 ...

A good number of people take Spirulina as a dietary supplement, but researchers at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science have found a way to coat the blue-green algae in semiconductor ...

A worker fell into the nuclear reactor at the controversial Palisades Power Plant in Michigan, where they drank a little ...

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