Chernobyl Experts Hopeful On Fukushima (ap)

Oleg Nasvit, principal expert of Ukraine's National Institute for Strategic Studies Environmental and Technogenic Safety Department, right, and Dmytro Bobro, first deputy head of Ukraine's State Agency for Exclusion Chernobyl NPP Zone Management, speak at each other during an interview with The Associated Press in Tokyo Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. The Ukrainian nuclear experts said residents of Fukushima who had to flee their homes after the Fukushima nuclear crisis should be able to return home as long as cleanup and close monitoring are ensured. They said such a decision should be based on radiation dose levels rather than distance from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, where three of its six reactors suffered meltdowns after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami destroyed power and cooling systems. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP – Ukrainian nuclear experts say Japanese evacuated from around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant should be able to return to their homes — unlike the Chernobyl site, which remains inside a wide no-go zone a quarter-century after the accident there.

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