But the stricken reactors have yet to be stabilised and decommissioned, and the surrounding area decontaminated.

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He contrasts the intellectual depth of the New Labour project with the vacuity of Mr Cameron's decontaminated Conservatism.

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Greenpeace has included SS Norway on a watch-list of 50 ships, which it fears will not be decontaminated before being dismantled.

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Given enough resources, Lochbaum explained, even a highly radioactive site can be decontaminated so that people who were evacuated can move back.

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Four postal workers were decontaminated and the powder was taken for analysis.

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Each day 230, 000 gallons of sewage pass through before discharging, 99% decontaminated, through a 10-inch pipe into the harbor where fresh-faced grade-schoolers learn to tack.

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Each day 870, 000 liters of sewage pass through before being discharged, 99% decontaminated, through a 25-centimeter-diameter pipe into the harbor where grade-schoolers learn to tack.

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It is decontaminated before being used for tasks such as watering plants.

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Their argument is that the risks of conducting GM trials in the open are too great and that the site should be "decontaminated".

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The letters being held at the facility in Virginia had not been decontaminated on FBI orders, who wanted to keep the letters in their original state so they could be used as evidence in a court case.

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