ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Response from medical and emergency personnel during the recent Boston Marathon attacks has been heralded as one of the best because of the planning and practice of ...

PERHAPS sparked by the devastating natural disasters and terrorist attacks the nation has experienced in the recent past, a renewed emphasis has been placed on ensuring that decontamination procedures ...

Some 70 decontamination and WMD experts from the U.S., Canada and United Kingdom visited Dugway Proving Ground recently to witness demonstrations of new and emerging technologies that reduce chemical ...

July 17 -- For months, many Americans have been bracing themselves for what they keep hearing is inevitable — another terror attack. Public safety officials are ...

The main purpose of decontamination at a hazardous materials emergency is to limit the spread of contaminants from the release area, or "hot zone," to include the cleaning of responders and their ...

On March 14, Kevin Hommema, an aerosol scientist at Battelle, a Columbus, Ohio-based research and development nonprofit, sent an email to his boss with a new idea: What if Battelle repurposed an older ...

A semi-automated and patented process for decontaminating and recycling radioactively contaminated heat exchanger tubes has been successfully demonstrated at the Ignalina nuclear power plant in ...

Nearly 15 years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, air radiation doses have dropped significantly in Fukushima Prefecture, with most of the land showing levels below the required decontamination.

Several emergency crews from throughout the Capital Region worked to extinguish a trailer home fire in Guilderland Saturday ...

WORKING TO MAKE THIS CHANGE FOR MONTHS. MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND IS IN FULL SWING AT FOLSOM LAKE. FOR EVERY BOAT ON THE WATER, THERE WAS A 30 DAY QUARANTINE TO GET THERE. THAT PART OF AN EFFORT TO PREVENT ...