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Tom Cochran testifies on the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and its Implications for U.S. Nuclear Power Reactors at the Joint Hearings of the Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety and the Committee on Environment and Public Works on April 12, 2011

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This study prepared by Matthew McKinzie, Ph.D. and Thomas B. Cochran, Ph.D., April 10, 2011, was submitted as an attachment with Dr. Cochran’s written statement to the Joint Hearings of the Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety and the Committee on Environment and Public Works, April 12, 2011.

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