Editing Cobalt bomb (section)

==Decontamination==
{{See also|Cactus Dome|Radioactive contamination#Decontamination}}
It may be possible to decontaminate relatively small areas contaminated by a cobalt bomb with equipment such as excavators and bulldozers covered with [[lead glass]], similar to those employed at the cleanup of the [[Semipalatinsk Test Site]].<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/XEqYroQEtA8 Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20101207202828/http://www.youtube.com//watch?v=XEqYroQEtA8 Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEqYroQEtA8|title=Born of Nuclear Blast: Russia's Lakes of Mystery|date=November 28, 2010|work=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> By skimming off the thin layer of fallout on the [[topsoil]] and burying it in the likes of a deep trench along with isolating it from [[ground water]] sources, the gamma air dose is cut by orders of magnitude.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-naweb.iaea.org/nafa/faqs-food-agriculture.html|title=Joint Division Questions & Answers - Nuclear Emergency Response for Food and Agriculture, NAFA|author=Joint FAO/IAEA Programme|work=iaea.org}}</ref><ref>International Atomic Energy Agency
International Atomic Enmergy Agency, 2000 - Technology & Engineering - restoration of environments with radioactive residues : papers and discussions, 697 pages</ref> The decontamination after the [[Goiânia accident]] in Brazil in 1987 and the possibility of a "[[dirty bomb]]" with Co-60, which has similarities with the environment that one would be faced with after a nuclear yielding cobalt bomb's fallout had settled, has prompted the invention of "sequestration coatings" and cheap liquid phase [[sorbent]]s for Co-60 that would further aid in [[decontamination]], including that of water.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neimagazine.com/features/featurescavenging-cobalt-from-radwaste-4428587/|title=Scavenging cobalt from radwaste|work=neimagazine.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wmsym.org/archives/2009/pdfs/9067.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.wmsym.org/archives/2009/pdfs/9067.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=Sequestration Coating Performance Requirements for Mitigation of Contamination from a Radiological Dispersion Device- 9067|publisher=Wmsym.org|access-date=2015-11-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_file_download.cfm?p_download_id=485276 |format=PDF |title=Sequestration Coating Performance Requirements for Mitigation of Contamination from a Radiological Dispersion Device |first=John |last=Drake |publisher=Cfpub.epa.gov |access-date=2015-11-12}}</ref>