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Chernobyl's legacy

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Twenty-five years after the nuclear disaster, the clean-up grinds on and health studies are faltering. Are there lessons for Japan?

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Peplow, M. Chernobyl's legacy. Nature 471, 562–565 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/471562a

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