clothing gear and other items to be decontaminated the system includes a plurality of uvc lamps vertically disposed in a housing and having uvc transmissive lamp enclosures over which items to be decontaminated are placed the system has a microprocessor based controller and can kill pathogens including clostridium difficile in 30 seconds or less application_number US 201514714852 A description a uvc disinfection system in accordance with the invention is shown in one embodiment in fig1 a housing or enclosure 10 contains a plurality of uvc lamps 12 disposed in vertical orientation in the interior chamber 14 of housing 10 in the illustrated embodiment four lamps are arranged along the width of the chamber the lamps are in the form of u shaped tubes which are pluggable at one end into associated sockets 16 positioned in the housing 10 the lamps are typically high output low pressure mercury or amalgam uvc generating lamps such as light sources model ltc24w 2g11 fep coated the lamps are typically about 12 inches in length in the illustrated embodiment sufficient uvc radiation is provided to kill 99 of pathogens in 30 seconds or less the housing 10 can be made of any suitable material and in the illustrated embodiment is aluminum preferably each lamp is covered by a protective sleeve to avoid shattering of the lamp quartz glass in the event of breakage.