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Since 1976 and the Seveso disaster, an industrial accident in a small chemical manufacturing facility that induced a chloracne epidemic in 447 Italian people, killed more than 80,000 animals, and exposed more than 37,000 people to 2,3,7,8tetarchlorodibenzo-p-dioxin,1 the world discovered and adapted its health system to extraordinary catastrophes and their environmental consequences. Many countries can be impacted by the pollution created by a disaster; in 1986 after the Chernobyl disaster, the worst nuclear accident that occurred at reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, radioactivity was discovered in Scottish people.2,3 Most recently, we can mention the French explosion disaster of the AZF factory in 2001 (AZF for “AZote Fertilisant”, ie, nitrogen fertilizer) with its large environmental consequences in the Garonne River (nitric acid, NH4, NO3, COT) that killed aquatic fauna. After the Fukushima disaster, themost severe nuclear accident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011, 154,000 residents were evacuated from a 20-kilometer radius zone around the nuclear reactor because of the radiation pollution.4