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JohnyCanuck

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Sun Nov 17, 2013, 08:27 PM Nov 2013

Japan Atomic Energy Commission - Fukushima an unprecedented, and deepening, crisis [View all]

As reported by ABC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, in the audio of a morning radio show at the link below.

Authorities begin Fukushima cleanup
Monday 18 November 2013 6:35AM
Japanese authorities will today begin removing highly radioactive fuel from one the Fukushima nuclear plant's damaged reactor buildings.

The Japan Atomic Energy Commission has described Fukushima as an unprecedented, and deepening, crisis, with the 160,000 people evacuated from the area unlikely to ever return home.


http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/authorities-begin-fukushima-cleanup/5098120

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