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March 29, 2011

Researchers: Japan Radiation Leak 160,000 Times Larger Than Three Mile Island 
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The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research has released data
showing the radiation leak in Japan is far worse than the one at Three
Mile Island in 1979. Researchers estimate the Japanese plant has
released 160,000 times as much radioactive iodine-131 as the Three Mile
Island accident. The researchers said the radiation leak in Chernobyl
was 10 times larger than the leak so far in Japan.



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