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Five people were decontaminated and one person was taken to hospital after an "accidental" chemical spill and spill at a university in Galloway Township, New Jersey, USA, on Tuesday 9 June. According to EMS1, local firefighters and county officials responded to a fire at Stockton University’s Unified
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The US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has announced the removal of the last caesium-137 blood irradiator from Lebanon. It marked an important milestone in their mission to "enhance US security by eliminating high-risk radioactive material across the world", according to a
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Eleven people are confirmed to have been killed in a chemical explosion at a paper mill in Washington state, USA, on Tuesday 26 May. The explosion, which occurred at 07:15 PDT at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging facility in Longview, 210km south of Seattle, happened due a "rupture of
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A team of experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Technical Secretariat, supported by Syrian authorities, has discovered a significant amount of undeclared chemical weapons, related materials and documentation during its most recent deployment in Syria. The findings of the team were made public in the
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As of 00:00 on Wednesday 20 June CEST, over 130 people are reported to have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and across the border in neighbouring Uganda in a new outbreak of the Ebola virus. According to information published by the United States Centers of Disease
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Ten people were taken to a hospital in Japan on Sunday afternoon, 10 May, after an unknown substance was reportedly sprayed inside a moving train near the Japanese capital, Tokyo. According to the Independent, the incident occurred at around 16:30 on an East Japan Railway Company train on the
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India's Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) opened the new CBRN field training and demonstration Centre at Burari plains in Delhi on Wednesday, 6 May. Inaugurated by the secretary of the Department of Defence research and development and the chairman of DRDO, Dr Samir V Kamat, the centre
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As of 1pm CEST on Wednesday 6 May, three people are confirmed to have died and three more have been evacuated from a cruise ship currently docked in Cape Verde amid a suspected outbreak of hantavirus. A total of eight cases have been confirmed by laboratory testing at the time
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The German federal government has announced that they are providing 20 vehicles for CBRN hazard response and decontamination to authorities in the states of Bavaria, Baden-Würrtemberg and Rheinland-Pfalz. The official handover took place at the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Relief in Bonn, where the German
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Demolition works at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant, which was the centrepiece of the United States' destruction of its chemical weapons stockpiles, began on 15 April. According to DVIDS, the demolition subcontractor, Independence Excavating, is tearing down the main plant, while the first structures to come
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A number of toxic and radioactive chemicals were discovered in a basement of a house in Prague, Czech Republic, on Saturday 25 April. Mercury, cyanide, arsenic, radioactive thorium and picric acid, which was once used as an explosive in military ordnance, were found during the cleanup of the basement on
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A father and son in New York have been arrested and charged after investigators discovered chemicals at their home that had been combined to create explosive materials. According the Nassau County police department, investigators discovered the chemicals while they were looking into a "bias incident" in which a