With the use of clean-room techniques and periodic decontamination by low heat cycles or ethylene oxide treatment, it should be possible to bring a spacecraft to the point of sterilization with about 10^6 organisms on board ([ref.
Decontamination and Sterilization of Lunar and Planetary Spacecraft.
He did mysterious things which to Nordenfeld meant a most scrupulous decontamination of a small spaceship's interior and its airlock.
Its title was Decontaminationof Infectious Material from Different Planets.
Some of the first, heavily loaded, were lifted to emptiness again and the process of decontamination of their hulls began.
They entered the fortress, passed through a decontamination chamber that would have done credit to an exploration ship, and emerged dressed in tunics and sandals that were far more appropriate and comfortable in this tropical climate.
It might take several lifetimes for its level to become low enough to approach if there was no decontamination equipment available.
Their spaceship was lowered to a flatcar and taken past rows of moonships and ICBMs to Decontamination Stage One.
By evening, the ship was taken to Decontamination Stage Two.
Stand up, Wert," said Tresqu, "and tell me about this captured decontamination ship.
They recommended complete decontamination of the planet, since the Humans were developing technologies which could eventually threaten us.
Inside the decontamination chamber, the Planeteers took off their masks and faced Rip with admiring grins.
Rip and his men picked up Koa and continued the march to the decontamination room, grinning under their respirators at the consternation around them.
So remember it when you go through the control room to the decontamination chamber.
They herded the doctors into the decontamination lock, stripped them of their clothes, scrubbed them down and tossed them special sterilized fatigues to wear with masks and gloves.
Grapplers were thrown out to bind the emissary ship to the Lancet's hull, and Jack threw the switches to open the entrance lock and decontamination chambers.
Moments later the creature stepped out of the decontamination chamber.
Tiger demanded as the technicians started unloadingdecontamination gear into the lock.
Other standard biological decontamination agents are described in FM 3-5.
See Appendix G for detailed information on patient decontamination procedures.
Decontamination efforts on subsistence items are limited to the containers and carton overwrap material.
Decontamination of most radiological contaminated patients and equipment can be accomplished with soap and water.
Three decontaminationteam members lift the patient off the decontamination litter (see Step 6 for lifting procedures).
Should this be the case, the patients may have to be transported by ambulance or other vehicle from the clean side (hot line) of the patient decontamination area to the receiving point of the hospital.
One trauma specialist supervises patient decontaminationand manages patients during the decontamination process.
Provide requirements for nonmedical personnel to perform patient decontamination at the MTF.
NOTE Liquid decontamination material must not be used on electrical or electronic components of equipment.
Decontamination of chemical contamination is as follows: (1) Personnel use their soldier skills and their M295 Individual Equipment Decontamination Kit to decontaminate their personal equipment.
If anthrax (or other spore formers) is suspected, repeat the entire decontamination process again to remove the spores.
Decontamination of patients, dental patients included, is an absolute requirement before admission into a clean MTF.
Finished slides and mounted specimens then go through another decontamination process to the outside lab.
From here they pass through a decontamination chamber and into the remote-control laboratory across the hall where we can run biochemical and histological techniques.
He didn't know what was meant by full decontamination procedure.
He could take F corridor to Number One, use the decontamination chamber and the acid from the lab, shuck off his armor there, and come back through E corridor.
He turned away and walked back to the decontamination chamber.
He wandered around the decontamination room, looking at everything, hoping he might see something that would give him a clue.
The habit of never leaving the lab without thorough decontamination was so thoroughly ingrained in him that he had simply never thought about it until that moment.
He went through the radiation trap to the decontamination chamber to wash off whatever it was he had picked up.
First came the decontamination chamber, where the radioactive dust that might have settled on the suits was sluiced off by the detergent sprays.
Combat equipment nearest the tunnel exit and nearest the vertical shaft, and ambulances and decontamination units and equipment for relief and rebuilding next.
Rip and his men picked up Koa and continued their march to thedecontamination room, grinning under their respirators at the consternation around them.
She put her arms around my neck as I carried her down the ladder into the poisonous decontamination tank that was our front door to Alpha Centauri.
Careful decontamination had saved our sterility, but now the Big Tank had no window.
He went through another decontamination chamber, and finally moved, with a line of passengers, out of the yawning airlock, under the strange sun, into the strange world.
Beyond the doorway the lights dwindled, and a Mentorian interpreter took his dark glasses, saying, "Kindly remove your belt, shoes and other accessories of leather or metal before stepping into the decontamination chamber.
