Five Decades After Spraying Began, US to Begin Part of Agent Orange Cleanup in Vietnam
<div class='node-body'><p>Fifty-one years after beginning a ten-year campaign of spraying Agent Orange in Vietnam, the U.S. announced Thursday it will begin a cleanup for the first time of just one of the 28 "hotspots" where the toxic chemical was stored.</p>
<p><em>Voice of America</em> <a href="http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2012/08/09/us-begins-cleanup-of-agent-orange-in-vietnam/">reports</a> that the four-year cleanup at a former U.S. airbase in Danang involves "73,000 cubic meters of affected soil and heating it to a high temperature to burn off leftover dioxin."</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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