Lysol Dual Action Disinfecting Wipes Value Pack, Citrus, 150ct
Disinfection of contaminated surfaces, sanitizing people
As a result of the use of weapons of mass destruction by the enemy, pockets of radioactive, chemical, and bacteriological contamination may occur. Under these conditions, people, animals, as well as territory, workplaces, apartments, and other materiel may become infected. Therefore, in order to eliminate the possibility of injury, it is necessary to carry out work on disinfection and sanitization.
Disinfection - decontamination, degassing and disinfection of infected surfaces.
Decontamination is carried out during contamination with radioactive substances and has the goal of removing them from infected objects to the permissible infection rates.
Decontamination consists of disinfecting toxic substances and their removal from contaminated surfaces.
Disinfection refers to the destruction of pathogenic microbes and the destruction of toxins.
Sanitary treatment of people - is the removal of radioactive and toxic substances, as well as bacteriological agents from the skin and mucous membranes of humans. When people sanitize people, decontamination, degassing and disinfection of clothes, shoes and personal protective equipment is carried out.
Depending on the conditions of holding, the availability of time and the means available, measures for decontamination and sanitization are divided into partial and complete. Partial measures for the decontamination of materials and sanitation of people are prophylactic. They are carried out during chemical contamination directly in the lesion, and in case of radioactive contamination, after exiting the lesion. Full disinfection is carried out at stationary washing points, clothes disinfection stations, as well as at special treatment points (platforms) deployed outside the lesion focus.
Means used for decontamination Deactivating substances and solutions
It is known that radioactive dust formed during ground-based nuclear explosions consists mainly of melted particles of an inactive carrier — soil materials, in which the radioactive isotopes are concentrated in mass and on the surface of which. It is difficult to separate these isotopes from the carrier, to wash it with water or to remove them with the help of deactivating substances. Therefore, the completeness of the decontamination of infected objects mainly depends on the connection of the carrier particles with the surface or material being deactivated, and the deactivation itself amounts to removing the maximum number of carrier particles.
Methods for the removal of radioactive contamination using deactivating substances in the processing of infected objects are different. They are chosen depending on the nature of the objects being decontaminated, the characteristics of the materials from which they are made, the conditions of the decontamination, the availability of the necessary means and other factors.
These removal methods are usually based on certain physicochemical processes, similar to those widely used in the removal of ordinary pollutants in various sectors of the national economy and in domestic conditions.
For decontamination apply substances that contribute to the removal of radioactive contamination, increasing the efficiency of the washing process, the complex formation and dissolution, sorption or ion exchange. In accordance with this, many surface-active (detergent) substances and preparations, complexing agents, acids, alkalis, sorbents, ion-exchange materials are referred to as deactivating substances.
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