The capacity to restore and recover infrastructure and other assets following a radiological release incident, whether intentional or accidental, is lacking due to a number of technological and logistical challenges. Rapid, efficient and cost effective recovery is critical to reduce public health risks, minimize economic impacts, restore public confidence, and in the case of an intentional incident, minimize the spread of fear thus discouraging further incidents. While a substantial number of technologies have been tested over the years to address the removal and sequestration of isotopic contamination, virtually all of these technologies exhibit shortcomings in logistics, cost effectiveness and efficacy, or a combination thereof. Additionally, Response Plans may do an adequate job of addressing many facets of a radiological event, including Law Enforcement, public health and mass casualties, psychosocial impacts, public communications, incident modeling and Command and Control, among others, but are noticeably lacking in Recovery and Restoration components. The ability to generate decontamination solutions “on-demand” for the remediation of radiological contamination is now available. This approach provides significant logistical, cost and efficiency advantages for radiological decontamination over traditional chemical-based approaches. For example, the envisioned systems will incorporate the capacity for field adjustments of generated solutions in order to adjust to varying contaminant, substrate and environmental matrices. This advanced technological ability has been made possible due to the interaction of a series of evolving technologies, including developments from the energy industry. These same systems can also be applied to chemical and biological (CB) decontamination needs, with a single device generating a range of CB decontamination solutions as well as solutions for the efficient removal of radiological and nuclear (RN) contaminants. This allows for the development of a true CBRN decontamination system contained in a single efficient deployment unit. This outline will briefly describe the technological approach envisioned for an On-Demand radiological decontamination system, describe one possible path for the prescribed technology development, testing, optimization and validation of such a system, and will discuss a sampling of the markets where such systems could provide significant logistical and cost advantages to the customer. Read Full Report
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