Japanese official visits near Chernobyl nuclear plant

Japanese official visits near Chernobyl nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - Handout photo shows Takashi Shinohara (R), Japanese senior vice minister of agriculture, visiting a site near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine on April 22, 2011, to learn about a soil decontamination method through growth of rapeseed crops. The ministry plans to launch an experiment of absorbing radioactive substances through growth of sunflower and rapeseed crops around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture. (Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries)(Kyodo)

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