Fukushima radioactive decontamination unit to be set up

HIRONO, Japan - Japanese nuclear disaster minister Goshi Hosono speaks to reporters in Hirono, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 20, 2011. Hosono told Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato at the prefectural government office in the city of Fukushima the same day that the central government will set up a task force, probably the following week, to promote radioactive decontamination in areas surrounding the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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