{"id":23568,"date":"2012-08-09T14:51:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T11:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=23568"},"modified":"2012-08-09T14:51:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T11:51:02","slug":"us-begins-clean-up-of-agent-orange-in-vietnam-23568","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/us-begins-clean-up-of-agent-orange-in-vietnam-23568\/","title":{"rendered":"US begins clean up of agent orange in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/agent-Orange-vietnam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23601\" title=\"agent Orange vietnam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/agent-Orange-vietnam-e1344512997154.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>Decades after America sprayed Vietnamese jungles with the toxic chemical Agent Orange, it launches a clean-up operation.<\/h1>\n<p>The move comes nearly four decades after US military planes first sprayed Vietnam&#8217;s jungles with the defoliant to strip away forest cover.<\/p>\n<p>The spraying took place over a 10-year period and was intended to expose communist troops and destroy their supplies during the conflict, which ended in 1975.<\/p>\n<p>Vietnamese and US officials launched the project to clean up deposits of the chemical at a former American airbase in Danang, in central Vietnam, where millions of gallons of Agent Orange were mixed, stored and loaded onto planes.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the launch ceremony on Thursday, US Ambassador to Vietnam David Shear, described the clean-up as a &#8220;historic milestone&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are both moving earth and taking the first steps to bury the legacies of our past,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The US government is providing $41m \u00a0towards the project, which will reduce the contamination level in 73,000 cubic metres of soil by late 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The contaminated soil and sediment will be excavated and heated in a pile structure to temperatures high enough to break the dioxin down into harmless compounds.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2007, the US has given about $60m \u00a0for environmental restoration and social services in Vietnam, but this is its first direct involvement in an Agent Orange clean-up.<\/p>\n<p>Exposure to the chemical has been linked with respiratory cancer and birth defects.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decades after America sprayed Vietnamese jungles with the toxic chemical Agent Orange, it launches a clean-up operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,63,1,118,14],"tags":[30900,30906,30911,30912,30908,30910,30909,30902,30907,30904,30897,9282,30901,30903,30898,30899,30905],"class_list":["post-23568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-agent-orange-vietnam","tag-agent-orange-vietnam-clean-up","tag-american-helicopters","tag-american-sprayed-vietnamese-jungles","tag-caner-vietnam-agent-orange","tag-former-american-airbase-danang","tag-historic-milestone","tag-us-agent-orange","tag-us-ambassador-to-vietnam-david-shear","tag-us-military-planes-vietnam","tag-us-vietnam","tag-vietnam","tag-vietnam-agent-orange","tag-vietnam-jungles-agent-orange","tag-vietnam-us","tag-vietnam-us-relations","tag-vietnam-war-1975"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}