Greenpeace: Radiation still high in Japan village near nuclear plant

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February
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Tokyo (dpa) – Environmental group Greenpeace Japan warned Tuesday that high radiation levels are still present in a Japanese village that the government is planning to announce is safe for its 6,000 residents to return to, six years after the country’s worst atomic disaster. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government is scheduled to allow residents in a…

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