Nuclear fallout spreads to food
Tags: RADIOACTIVE fallout; FUKUSHIMA Nuclear Accident, Fukushima, Japan, 2011; DISASTERS; FOOD contamination; MASS casualties; NUCLEAR reactors; RADIOACTIVE pollution; WATER pollution
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- Oh, for Those Halcyon Days When Nuclear Weapons Were Scarier Than Reactors. Wellen, Russ // Foreign Policy in Focus;3/28/2011, p4
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