• 26 JUN 12
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    Experts warn of another disaster awaiting at Fukushima

    From the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
    Broadcast: 25/06/2012

    Japanese and US nuclear experts warn that another earthquake hitting Fukushima could spark a disaster worse than Chernobyl.

    Transcript
    LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: One more major earthquake in Japan and the nation could face a nuclear disaster 10 times the scale of Chernobyl. That’s what experts are telling 7.30. When Japan was hit last year by a massive earthquake and tsunami, the world feared nuclear catastrophe. The nation’s Fukushima nuclear reactors were inside the disaster zone. We’ve not heard much about them for a while, but the danger certainly hasn’t passed. Experts say the situation inside Fukushima reactor number four is precarious, as North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy reports from Fukushima.

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    See the video and full transcript here: http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3532725.htm

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