MSNBC: Neurologist discusses nuclear crisis in Japan

Release Date: March 29, 2011 This content is archived.

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An article on MSNBC about the detection of plutonium in soil near the troubled nuclear reactor facility in Japan quoted UB professor of neurology and nuclear medicine Alan Lockwood as saying about the radioactive contaminant, "If you inhale it, it's there and it stays there forever." Other outlets that ran the story include Bloomberg BusinessWeek, FoxNews, the Associated Press, Miami Herald, New Jersey Herald and Philadelphia Inquirer.

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