Chernobyl expert in symposium

Chernobyl expert in symposium

AOMORI, Japan - Mikhail Balanov, professor at Russia's St. Petersburg Research Institute of Radiation Hygiene, speaks during a symposium in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 2, 2012. The expert on the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster said it is imperative to cleanse food of radioactive substances released by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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