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Crews have been working on the plant ever since, but officials say it can take as much as 40 years to completely clean up the area and decontaminate it.
从那时起工作人员们一直致力于核电站的工作，但官员们表示采取需要40年以上才能完全清理并净化这片区域。
People often put their sponges and scrubbers in the dishwasher, but if they really want to decontaminate them and not just clean them, they should use the microwave.
人们通常把他们的海绵和洗涤器放在洗涤池中，但是如果他们真想将她们去污，而不是想清洗它们，应该使用微波炉。
Scarlett said that when a cat or dog comes into a shelter, "We take pictures, wash the animal, decontaminate it, and then house it and wait for the owners to show up.
斯嘉丽介绍说，有猫或狗送来的时候，“我们先照相，接着给它洗澡，收拾干净，给它腾地方，然后等待主人的现身。”

During this mock exercise, water is used instead of chemicals to decontaminate people who play the role of survivors.

The army reckons it will take about 32 months to build the incinerator, 16 months to disassemble and prepare the weapons for incineration, and about a year to shut down the plant and decontaminate the site.
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Algae can be fed from waste-streams of CO2 from fossil-fuel power stations as a carbon elimination strategy and can also decontaminate groundwater, so there is a potential mix of environmental solutions in aid of a common goal of fuel beyond oil.
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Unfortunately, no victory big or small will save Sofia and her peers from their fate: Scientists who have studied the area say even if spraying stopped completely today, it would take a few generations to decontaminate the water and soil, and for any lingering health impacts to fade away.
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To decontaminate something means to remove all germs or dangerous substances from it.
decontamination

净化
Turf can be used to protect and transfigure environment, decontaminate atmosphere, preserve soil and water, reduce noise pollution, it has become an indispensable thing in our daily life.
草坪可以绿化环境，净化空气，保持水土，降低噪音污染，与人类文明有着非常重要的联系，已成为人们日常生活中不可或缺的部分。