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Seveso

American  
[suh-vey-soh, se-ve-saw] / səˈveɪ soʊ, sɛˈvɛ sɔ /

noun

  1. an industrial town in N Italy, near Milan: 1976 dioxin release.


Seveso British  
/ sɛˈveɪsəʊ /

noun

  1. a town in N Italy, near Milan: evacuated in 1976 after contamination by a poisonous cloud of dioxin gas released from a factory

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Two years after, the core of Seveso is dead The streets today are still sealed behind a high fence of yellow plastic panels, like a Berlin Wall of environmental quarantine.

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For Fuller has just written a true, tragic account of Seveso.

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Today, according to the report, a five-mile wedge of Seveso has been successfully detoxified, at a cost of $32 million, by government teams that cleared and buried entire acres of plants and even topsoil.

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When a few pounds of it were released into the air by an explosion at an Italian chemical plant in 1976, more than 700 people in the town of Seveso were evacuated.

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Since then the birth rate in Seveso has dropped sharply.

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