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A worker, who has returned from the cooling down operation of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant third reactor, receives the radiation exposure test at Onahama Port on March 23, 2011 in Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan.
Thursday, Mar. 24, 2011

Open quoteWe've got at least 10 days to two weeks of potential drama before you can declare the accident over.Close quote

  • MICHAEL FRIEDLANDER,
  • a nuclear engineer, saying that although the restoration of electricity to Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is hopeful, dangerous tasks are still required to halt the spread of radioactive contamination from the site
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