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March 14, 2011, 2:52 pm One of the most abundant substances in the cloud of radioactive steam released by a failing nuclear power plant is iodine-131—a radioactive form of the element, iodine, that is found throughout nature. Iodine-131 poses a special health risk because of its cancer-causing effect on the thyroid gland. The small, butterfly-shaped [...]

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14 March 2011 Last updated at 05:11 ET A second explosion has hit a Japanese nuclear plant that was damaged in Friday’s earthquake, but officials said the reactor core was still intact. A huge column of smoke billowed from Fukushima Daiichi’s reactor 3, two days after a blast hit reactor 1. The latest explosion, said [...]

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