Japan nuclear situation – expert responds
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Our colleagues from the Australian Science Media Centre gathered this comment from a nuclear chemistry expert on the latest development as of March 17 09:53 JST.
Prof Stephen Lincoln, Lectures on nuclear chemistry and is an environmental chemist in the School of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Adelaide:
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