The increasing need to work with airborne infectious agents places greater reliance upon the personnel and environmental protection that biocontainment facilities provide. Ensuring that these facilities function properly depends on carefully reviewing post-construction performance and establishing operating protocols that take advantage ofa facility's attributes while recognizing its individual limitations. Our review process expands on the work done by others and provides a foundation for developing standard certification procedures for biocontainment facilities.
The unavailability of disposal facilities for long-lived low-level radioactive waste (LLRW), expense associated with its disposal, and, for some generators, limitation of space to decay short half-life radioactive materials has prompted the search for alternatives to radiochemical techniques. Some of these alternatives are presented below.
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