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Waste Estimation Support Tool (WEST)

US Environment Protection Agency

2021

DisciplinesMicrobiology, Statistics & Probabilities

Scale1 to 10 m, 10 to 1000 m, greater than 1 km / 1 to 60 min, 1 to 24 hours, 1 to 30 days, 1 to 12 months, greater than 1 year

Non-expert summaryThe US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has generated a number of management tools related to cleaning and decontamination. The EPA website states that "Management of waste from a radiological dispersal device (RDD) incident would likely constitute a large part of the remediation cost and effort. The U.S. EPA’s RDD Waste Estimation Support Tool (WEST) is a planning tool for estimating the potential volume and radioactivity levels of waste generated by a radiological incident and subsequent decontamination efforts. WEST supports decision makers by generating a first-order estimate of the quantity and characteristics of waste resulting from a radiological incident, and allows the user to evaluate various decontamination/demolition strategies to examine the impact of those strategies on waste generation. "

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Article

Modelling mass casualty decontamination systems informed by field exercise data

Egan, J.R., Amlôt, R.

2012International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health93685-3710

Keywordschemical warfare agent simulant, decontamination, emergency response, people

DisciplinesStatistics & Probabilities

CategoriesField work, Numerical simulations

Scale1 to 10 m, 10 to 1000 m, greater than 1 km / 1 to 24 hours, 1 to 30 days

Non-expert summaryThe management of decontamination of the population (who were mobile enough to walk through a showering lane) in the event of a large-scale chemical release in the UK was modelled, based on data collected in field trials. The movement of volunteer casualties at two mass decontamination field exercises was monitored using passive Radio Frequency Identification tags and detection mats. The data were used to inform a computer model of the UK fire and rescue service component of the mass decontamination process. This identified bottlenecks in the process and led to recommendations for change, particularly in the re-dressing part of the process.

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