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Cleaning Up Japan's Radioactive Mess With Blue Goo

Posted by timothy on from the if-only-it-could-also-bounce dept.

InfiniteZero writes "A clever technology is helping hazmat crews in Japan contain and clean up the contamination caused by the ongoing nuclear disaster there: a blue liquid that hardens into a gel that peels off of surfaces, taking microscopic particles like radiation and other contaminants with it. Known as DeconGel, Japanese authorities are using it inside and outside the exclusion zone on everything from pavement to buildings."

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  1. Wait, what? by DWMorse · · Score: 5, Funny

    What? How will Repulsion Gel help us clean up Japan? It hardly worked at ALL for Aperture Labs.

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    1. Re:Wait, what? by Burdell · · Score: 5, Funny

      I would sure hate to be the test case here. Poor guy got a bucket of blue paint; now he glows in the dark. Never has a problem finding his keys though.