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A group of volunteers in Japan is using Geiger counters to do something that the Japanese government is accused of not doing well enough: gathering information about radiation levels and making it public. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with the group's director, Sean Bonner, about their findings, which he says are "shocking".
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