Viet Nam has experienced the significant impacts of dioxin pollution in the world. Large quantities of herbicides, most of which were contaminated with dioxin, were used in the war over the period of 1961-1971. The soil dioxin concentration in sprayed areas has declined to background level; however, a few sites at the airports where the herbicides, mainly Agent Orange (AO), were stored and/or handled are still highly contaminated. To date, dioxin ‘hotspots’ with contamination levels exceeding national dioxin limits (1,000 pg I-TEQ/g) have been identified on three airport that were used as military bases during the war, namely Bien Hoa, Da Nang and Phu Cat airbase.
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) approved the project “Environmental Remediation of Dioxin Contaminated Hotspots in Viet Nam”. The objective of the project is “to minimize the disruption of ecosystems and health risks for people from environmental releases of TCDD contaminated hotspots”. One of the key components of the Project is the demonstration of prospective dioxin destruction technologies at practical scale to evaluate their feasibility. The Project includes a key output “pilot scale demonstration of remediation technology for potential use at Bien Hoa and/or Phu Cat” under the Outcome “Dioxin in core hotspot areas contained and remediated”.
In scope of supporting capacity building of the project, some dioxin remediation technologies (such as MCD) were demonstrated to provide clear knowledge and technical solutions on dealing with dioxin issues to Vietnam. With the aim to provide specific guidance to Vietnam including the technologies demonstration procedure/basic steps, principles and give specific notes for each group of relevant dioxin remediation technology when undertaking selection, preparation, implementation, evaluation and monitoring dioxin technology demonstration and application in future, the Project is seeking for a national expert as a team member to support an international expert to develop a guideline for dioxin remediation technology demonstration.
See the Terms of reference (TOR [1]) for more details.
All interested national candidates are invited to send application letter and CV in English to the address below.
Dr. Nguyen My Hang, Project Manager at [email protected]
Dioxin Project Management Unit
#714, NARENCA building, 85 Nguyen Chi Thanh, Dong Da, Ha Noi
Tel: 377 38760
Deadline: By 17h00 March 31st, 2014