Vietnam and the United States today launched a project to clean up dioxin contamination from the herbicide Agent Orange in areas of Da Nang airport where it was stored and handled during the U.S.-Vietnam War.
Vietnam’s Ministry of National Defense and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will clean up about 73,000 cubic meters of contaminated soil and sediment. The contaminated soil and sediment will be excavated and hauled to a mound, where it will be heated to a high temperature to destroy the dioxins. When the project is completed (currently scheduled for 2016), the treated soil and sediment will be safe for industrial and commercial use according to the standards applied by the Vietnamese government as well as U.S. government standards for cleanup sites in the United States.
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