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March 5, 2012

How Close Was Japan to a Nuke Disaster?

Nordhaus & Shellenberger, Slate Magazine


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With an eye to the first anniversary of the tsunami that killed 20,000 people and caused a partial meltdown at the Fukushima power plant in Japan, a recently formed nongovernmental organization called Rebuild Japan released a report earlier this week on the nuclear incident to alarming media coverage. . .

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TAGGED: health impact, environmental impact, nuclear energy, nuclear disaster, Japan, Fukushima, Slate magazine

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