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Japan faces more than a decade of nuclear clean-up

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Experts fear that damage to the Fukushima reactors is worse than partial meltdown.

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A shorter version of this story appears in this week's edition of Nature magazine.

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Brumfiel, G. Japan faces more than a decade of nuclear clean-up. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.211

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