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Exactly what I was thinking. Hospitals already use a lot of hyper-hazardous materials and ionizing radiation, this is within their skill and logistical abiliti
by Pxtl 3y ago
Exactly what I was thinking. Hospitals already use a lot of hyper-hazardous materials and ionizing radiation, this is within their skill and logistical abilities. A hospital could leverage something similar to a big industrial food irradiator within its laundry system to sterilize everything.
- LargoLasskhyfv 3y agoMaybe industrial application of so called 'cold-plasma' would be a more sensible thing to do? Or in addition, just to 'be sure'.
- jayknight 3y agoI work at a children's cancer hospital and they have UV robots that go into rooms to disinfect them between patients.
- genewitch 3y agoat the main hospital here they have a large UV/ozone machine that makes a popping sound like a large flashbulb twice a second or so. I don't think it's a robot. As an aside, where can i reliably get any real UV-C + Ozone bulb these days? I had 3, i gave one away and two broke during the pandemic, and all i have been able to find in the past year and a half is UV-C that doesn't produce ozone, but instead that weird "too much sunlight" smell - anti-septic smelling but it doesn't murder pathogens like ozone does.
- ajb 3y agoI dunno about that. I remember reading about an incident where a radiation source was transported in a lorry for miles without the cap on. Would have been a quite damaging if it hadn't happened to be pointed downwards Edited to add: found it: https://archive.is/mtvCY https://archive.is/mtvCY
- cratermoon 3y agoSee also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident "an unsecured radiotherapy source was stolen from an abandoned hospital site in the city."