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Abstract

A launderable reinforced full body suit is disclosed composed of a launderable environmentally contained, flexible, light weight base garment and launderable, flexible, light weight, heavy duty reinforcements on the base garment to provide a protective knee, seat, and elbow composed of a flexible, light weight material for providing heavy duty wear resistance through successive recycle and reuse, and a launderable protective sleeve composed of a flexible, light weight aramid fibers material for providing heavy duty penetration resistance from shot blasting. A decontamination process for laundering the reinforced full body suit includes providing a washer area, a washer and dryer for laundering the contaminated reinforced full body suit in the washer area, a cleaning fluid filtering area for automatically monitoring and controlling cleaning fluid quality discharged from the washer area to the outside environment, a clean area for working on decontaminated clothes received from the washer area, automatically monitoring and controlling air quality in the washer area, in the cleaning fluid filtering area, in the clean area, and for air quality discharged to the outside environment, and recycling and reusing the laundered and decontaminated reinforced full body suit.

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