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The level of UVC required to kill viruses would also cause sunburn and arc flash[1] in minutes.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photokeratitis

You could run it when the plane was empty, but if you're going to do that, you might as well just put the lights on a cart and push it through the plane.



222nm (far uvc) is effective, studied, and has zero health hazards

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5552051/


Very interesting report! Do you have information on how common materials such as plastics and clothing fabrics respond to a germicidal level of UVC?




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