Seveso
Americannoun
noun
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The so-called "Seveso" sites include plants that manufacture hazardous materials for missiles and rockets.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Because the preservative contains dioxin, a substance related to the highly toxic chemical that has made the Italian town of Seveso uninhabitable, state officials banned sales of PCP and quarantined suspect cattle.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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