UN Chief Visits Fukushima As Nuclear Crisis Simmers

RadioFreeEurope Sunday 7th August, 2011

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in the Japanese city of Fukushima, where he planned to visit the nuclear disaster zone around a damaged atomic power plant. The UN chief is one of the most senior foreign officials to go near the damaged nuclear plant since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that triggered the catastrophe. On August 8...

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