Seveso
Americannoun
noun
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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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Two years after the disaster known as "Italy's Hiroshima," the core of Seveso is a dead community, and no one knows when�if ever�it will become habitable again.
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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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Since then the birth rate in Seveso has dropped sharply.
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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.
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