"Working in a field hospital outside of a nuclear,contaminated zone is a little different than working in a combat zone in Iraq or Afghanistan."

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He says he is even readying a proposal for a solar facility inside the contaminated no-go zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

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DiNapoli, acting as trustee of the state pension fund, in November filed a shareholder resolution calling on the company to analyze whether it would reduce its long-term liability by removing contaminated sediment outside the current cleanup zone.

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The Fukushima accident severely contaminated surrounding towns within and beyond a 20-kilometer exclusion zone, forcing tens of thousands of residents to relocate.

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