{"id":35744,"date":"2011-05-29T15:45:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T15:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/officials-use-blue-peelable-goo-to-decontaminate-japan-discoblog\/"},"modified":"2011-05-29T15:45:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T15:45:03","slug":"officials-use-blue-peelable-goo-to-decontaminate-japan-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/officials-use-blue-peelable-goo-to-decontaminate-japan-discoblog.php","title":{"rendered":"Officials Use Blue, Peelable Goo to Decontaminate Japan | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/67e23_decongel1-e1306442460292.jpeg\" alt=\"goo\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><br>Just pour and peel! Also slices and dices.<\/p><p>Put away that Swiffer&mdash;when you&rsquo;ve got a real mess to clean up, turn to this blue goo.<\/p><p>Japanese officials looking to clean up radioactive contamination are applying a product called <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/decongel.com\/index.html\">DeconGel<\/a> to the problem. The usual method is distressingly Stone Age: soap and water applied by human beings. As you can imagine, there are a number of problems with this, like what to do with all that radioactive water, which has a tendency to leak all over the place, and what to do about radiation exposure of said human beings.<\/p><p>DeconGel, 100 buckets of which were donated to the relief effort by its manufacturer, CBI Polymers, looks to be a handy way to bypass all that. A radiation-mitigation expert working with Japanese officials put them on to it: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been doing this for 20 years,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;and there&rsquo;s nothing comparable to DeconGel out there that I know of today.&rdquo; (via <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/05\/25\/technology\/toxic_waste_cleanup_goo\/index.htm\">CNNMoney<\/a>)<\/p><p>If you&rsquo;ve ever used a lint roller, you&rsquo;re familiar with the basic mechanics of DeconGel. The viscous blue goop is poured onto the contaminated surface, allowed to dry, and then peeled off like masking tape from a ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KINtf23PTbP5W1_Pmum3UlLEAfo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/67e23_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KINtf23PTbP5W1_Pmum3UlLEAfo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b8785_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b8785_yncDD9mxL-E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b8785_D4_Cc4maBuA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just pour and peel! Also slices and dices.Put away that Swiffer&mdash;when you&rsquo;ve got a real mess to clean up, turn to this blue goo.Japanese officials looking to clean up radioactive contamination are applying a product called DeconGel to the problem. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/officials-use-blue-peelable-goo-to-decontaminate-japan-discoblog.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}