Environmental restoration

Environmental restoration
  Although usually described as "cleanup," this function encompasses a wide range of activities, such as stabilizing contaminated soil; treating groundwater; decommissioning process buildings, nuclear reactors, chemical separations plants, and many other facilities; and exhuming sludge and buried drums of waste.
  U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration's Energy Glossary

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