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    Site clean up and certification Research to minimize clean problem Consult with consultant Hire specialist contractor for cleaning site Secure inspection and clean up certification It may effect time, cost and plan goal. Cleaning of contaminated soil if required A) Using machines B) Planting certain types of plants which got particular gift for sucking up specific chemicals. It may effect on Health of Humans because Crops and plants grown on polluted soil absorb

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    microorganisms are widely used in Bioremediation process, generally in waste water treatments. Microorganisms are used for bioremediation process because they synthesize enzymes to use environmental contaminations as foods. Also microorganisms are very small so they are able to contact contaminations easily.Microbial bioremediation

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    Radioactive Contamination Of Soil and Groundwater Due to Storage of Nuclear Waste A case of Hanford Nuclear Reservation site Name Student no Jaysheel Pandya 1001025972   Contents Introduction 3 Contaminants on and around the site 4 Soil and Groundwater Contamination 5 Sources of Contamination 5 Physical and Hydrogeological conditions of the site and waste transport pathways 6 Interaction of contaminants in groundwater 9 Uranium 9 Chromium 10 Strontium 10 Remediation Strategies

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    Xiangyu Li Professor Kei Lutalo English 1106 6 March 2016 "pollution in china" In the paper, I argue that what types of pollution in china by introducing the situation and problems in china. Following the development of economic and scientific, China is playing a very important role in the international arena. Increasing the number of people become rich. they can buy the new car, big house, and expensive clothes. In many people 's opinions that China is becoming strong and rich. But they do not

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    Fetus Lead Contamination

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    realize the pregnancy as soon as possible. In addition to those protocols, any fertile woman wishing to work in the toxic environment would be required to give some of their blood to be set aside to supplement their blood in case of a fetus lead contamination. In other words, should a woman become pregnant with some lead in her blood, she could undergo a blood transfusion with her own blood in order to dilute and reduce the lead levels and or undergo a treatment of dialysis to potentially remove any

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    be easily contaminated. Moreover, it is generally known that aquatic animals and fish may uptake these compounds present in drainage water and in phytoplankton then bioaccumulation (Arnot and Gobas, 2004). Fish is a biomarker to environmental contamination thereby, pesticides may cause many physiological and biochemical changes influencing the activities of several enzymes and metabolites (Mukesh, 2013) even exposure to low levels of pesticides have adverse biological effects (Hernandez et al., 2006)

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    Phytoremediation: Green Technology for the Future Phytoremediation is the process by which plants and trees are used to remove or stabilize hazardous pollutants that exist in soil, sediments, surface water or groundwater. The EPA (environmental protection agency) estimates that more than 30,000 sites in the U.S. are in need of environmental treatment, and a great number of these sites are contaminated with highly toxic metals. Abandoned or under-used commercial and industrial facilities, termed

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    airborne particulate contamination. They are in possession of two ⌀20cmx20cm cylindrical, thallium doped sodium iodide (NaI(Ti)) scintillator detectors for mounting onboard an aircraft for the recording of count rate and collection of spectroscopic data. Initially, surveying will

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    Pesticides In Canada

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    One of the most direct way of pesticides reaching the fish population is contamination of water sources due to soil erosion, leeching, run-off and accidental exposure. This leads to mass death of aquatic life forms due to poisoning and depletion of oxygen. Sometimes, pesticides intended to eradicate a pest in one species has fatal

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    Nuclear Power Disasters: Fukushima Daiichi Fukushima Daiichi joins the ranks of nuclear disasters that include Chernobyl (1989) and Three Mile Island (1979). Fukushima Daiini, sat alongside Daiichi, and was not damaged during the earthquake or tsunami. It is still operable. Worldwide, there are 439 (GW 377) and 69 (GW 66) nuclear power plants—although not all are in operation, at this time. Nuclear power plants are either nuclear fusion, nuclear fission, or power that is derived from nuclear decay

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