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A Tokyo Electric Power Corp (TEPCO) official and journalists wearing protective equipment stand near storage tanks for radioactive water at Japan's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in November, 2013. A team of Japanese scientists say

Algae to the rescue at Fukushima? Scientists say it could help

February 6, 2014Environment

Japanese researchers say they’ve found a species of algae that could help decontaminate radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. But they say the plant’s owners don’t seem very interested in the idea.

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