Pacific Ocean contamination rekindles memories of Sellafield leak

Pacific Ocean contamination rekindles memories of Sellafield leak

LONDON, Britain - Bill Camplin, group manager, radiological and chemical risk, at the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Lowestoft, England, on April 12, 2011. Camplin, who has investigated radioactive leaks at the Sellafield nuclear facility in Cumbria in the 1970s, suggested there are some parallels with the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. (Kyodo)

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