Science & Technology

Contaminant Fate, Transport & Exposure

Large scale contamination incidents can affect a wide variety of surfaces, environments, and infrastructure. Knowledge of the persistence, life cycle, and movement of of these contaminants can help inform sampling, cleanup, and remediation decisions.

Chemical Fate & Transport

EPA conducts research to help responders and decision makers understand the fate and transport of chemical warfare agents (CWAs) so that they can minimize human health effects and environmental impacts following the release of a CWA.

Cesium’s Interaction in the Built Environment

EPA experimentally assessed the migration of cesium into urban materials, including asphalt, brick, concrete, limestone, and granite.

Considering Trade-offs in Contamination Cleanup Webinar

EPA's ORD offers free public webinars on recent research results. Watch a webinar on the Trade-off Tool for Sampling, a GIS-based tool to help responders develop sampling plans and consider the costs and trade-offs during contamination cleanup/response.

2021 Decon Conference Proceedings

Links to speaker presentations, Q&A sessions, and videos from EPA's 2021 International Decontamination Research & Development Conference.

Assessing Exposure

EPA is interested in the risk posed by exposure to contaminants that could be adapted to be used as weapons, like chem, bio, and rad agents. EPA assesses information on the exposure and toxicity of these agents with risk assessments.

Cesium’s Movement in the Natural Environment

EPA has studied Cesium’s interactions with the natural environment at the bench, pilot and field-scale.

Radiological Technology Demonstration

Description of the Wide Area Urban Radiological Containment, Mitigation, and Clean up Technology Demonstration was held at Battelle in Columbus, Ohio, June 22‐25, 2016.

Using Greenspace to Cope with Climate-Related Health Challenges

Using greenspace, green infrastructure, and other nature-based solutions to benefit the health and well-being of vulnerable communities in urban areas.