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September 24, 2014

ScienceLives interview with Gregory Button

A year after the nuclear meltdown that occurred on March 11, 2011, in Fukushima, Japan, Gregory Button, a professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is studying the scientific uncertainty surrounding that event.

For more than three decades he has researched various aspects of major disasters including environmental health, scientific uncertainty, disaster mitigation response and preparedness, disaster policy, long-term recovery, clean-up efforts, human rights and other critical issues.

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