U.S. nuclear cleanup holds lessons for Fukushima crisis

U.S. nuclear cleanup holds lessons for Fukushima crisis

RICHLAND, United States - The U.S. Energy Department shows to the press the Hanford Site, a complex of nuclear reactors and processing facilities once used to produce plutonium for the U.S. nuclear arsenal, in Richland in the U.S. state of Washington on April 24, 2012. (Kyodo)

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