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Saturday, March 10, 2012

''Nuclear power back from the grave''

From Asia Times
By Victor Kotsev

A year after one of the worst industrial disasters in history - the triple reactor meltdown and spent fuel fires at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant - we still don't have a very clear idea about the full ecological, health and economic consequences facing Japan and the world.

Yet, while staggering amounts of radiation were released into the environment (the danger of new discharges lurks: even the plant director acknowledges that the reactors are "still rather fragile"), the global nuclear industry seems unfazed.

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