How radiation will change #Japan

@msnbc_world Cosmic Log: How radiation will change Japan http://on.msnbc.com/hkI5On


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By Alan Boyle

Radiation experts are painting a sobering picture of the Fukushima nuclear disaster's long-term impact on Japan in a series of reports published today by the journal Nature. At best, the country faces more than a decade of expensive cleanup, including the decommissioning of the reactor complex and the disposal of contaminated debris. At worst, wide areas of land around the complex will have to be abandoned, as they were in Ukraine after Chernobyl.