:Typical customer Inquiry: We have had a spill of phenylacetic acid in a lab (MSDS attached). The odor threshold of phenylacetic acid is in the single to tens ppb range. It's not a particularly hazardous chemical but it has been impossible to get rid of the odor. We have tried to decontaminate with many different chemical solutions and still have the odor. The chemical manufacturer has no more recommendations for us. Someone mentioned that one of your products could be used as a sealant for the contaminated surfaces. Can you help?!

2. "I am in process of developing methods to decontaminate a process hot cell that has a film of residual solids left after the evaporation of Hydroflouric Acid, Boric acid, Nitric Acid and Aluminum Nitrate chemicals that contained relatively high concentrations of dissolved cadmium, boron, uranium and zirconium. Do you have a product that is compatible with these chemicals to use to help strip off and minimize the contamination on walls and floors made of welded stainless steel?"

Customer Inquiry : Nuclear application - a strippable coating to bind up and help remove solidified residuals of the following liquids: Zirconyl Nitrate in 2M Nitric Acid; Aluminum Nitrate 2 M with 30 g/L cadmium Nitrate; Hydrofluoric Acid with 12 g/L Boron, cadmium sulfate, Nitric Acid 13M with 30 g/L cadmium nitrate.  These acids would have zirconium alloys, uranium and transuranic isotopes dissolved in them. The materials have dried to a crystalline powder on sst and hastaloy surfaces. 
Also, small volumes of these liquids will be spilled on the applied coating over a period of 12 months prior to removal.

Do you have a coating that can be applied over a wet surface?  There appears to be a wet layer at the bottom of some of the thicker layers of these materials.  Also, we may wash down the surfaces with high pressure water prior to applying the coating and do not have a good means of drying the surfaces other than allowing the ventilation flow to dry it out over time. The radiation levels are relatively high so this coating will need to be applied be sprayer using remote manipulators.
2. Typical customer Inquiry: Dear Sirs, We at the A Nuclear Power Station are in the middle of various de-commissioning activities on site prior to entering a long-term period of care and maintenance.

One of the next activities to be performed is the draining-down of the concrete built reactor cooling water ponds.

Our technical guys have suggested that there might be the need to apply a Temporary Protective Removable Coating to the wet concrete surfaces of the ponds after drain-down and power spray cleaning to contain any contaminated surface particulate and also prevent airborne contamination.

This temporary coating would later be peeled away taking any loose particulate with it to be replaced with a more permanent and hard-wearing coating.