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February 28, 2012

Report: Japan Concealed Full Dangers of Fukushima Nuclear Disaster 
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A new independent report has revealed the Japanese government withheld
information about the full dangers of last year's nuclear disaster from
its own people and from the United States. Reuters is reporting Japan's
then-prime minister ordered workers to remain at the crippled Fukushima
nuclear plant as fears mounted that a chain reaction at the plant would
force the entire city of Tokyo to be evacuated. At the time, Japanese
officials were fearing thousands of spent fuel rods stored at a damaged
reactor would melt and spew radiation across large parts of the country.



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