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Still, the idea of using bacteria to treat radioactive waste may have broad and important implications, says Kostka, since DOE facilities that once made nuclear weapons have vast contaminated underground areas.

The PV Shelf Superfund site represents a vast contaminated area where a multitude of factors could have affected the concentration profiles of DDXs and PCBs at a given location, including effluent discharge history, distance to the outfalls, topography of the ocean floor, and sediment deposition, burial, and resuspension caused by ocean currents.

The tanks are meant to store the vast amounts of contaminated liquid created as workers cool the complex's three damaged reactors by pumping water into their cores, along with groundwater recovered after it poured into the reactors' breached basements.

Fallout from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident contaminated vast regions of the Ukraine.

"Floodwaters have contaminated vast areas," says Inayat Ulah, a bomb squad official.

Ever since the Chernobyl accident in 1986, that contaminated vast areas in surrounding countries with radiation, abnormalities and birth defects have been reported in human populations.

Radionuclide fallout from the Chernobyl reactor explosion and the ensuing graphite fire contaminated vast areas of land, most of which was agricultural.

The Chernobyl accident, the Soviet news agency said, was the first to have occurred in the Soviet Union, ignoring reports reaching the West of a serious accident in the Urals in 1958 which is believed to have killed many people and contaminated a vast area when a nuclear waste dump exploded.

The power station suffered a series of meltdowns and explosions, contaminating vast swathes of land with radiation and forcing thousands of people to abandon their homes.

Water-soluble divalent mercuric ion (Hg2+) is one of the most usual and stable form of mercury pollution, which provides a pathway for contaminating vast amounts of water and soil.

Vast areas of land are contaminated by dangerous short- and long-lived radioactive isotopes, notably strontium-90, which can replace calcium in foods and become concentrated in bones and teeth.