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"We saw grandpas and grandmas going about their lives in an environment that you'd only see in highly controlled areas at a nuclear-power plant," says Mr. Imanaka, who had spent years studying the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident.

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On March 28, a group of independent experts led by Tetsuji Imanaka , an associate professor at Kyoto University's Research Reactor Institute and an opponent of nuclear power, visited Iitate to test the air and soil.

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Before leaving Iitate, Mr. Imanaka advised Norio Kanno , the village chief, to evacuate children as soon as possible.

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The particles in the smog will eventually settle down to the surface and may be exposed to conditions that could create life, said Imanaka, who is also a principal investigator at the

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Imanaka said, "Then I finally found the nitrogen!"

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"It was quite a mystery," said Imanaka, the paper's first author.

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It was nerve-racking, Imanaka said: "If we miss just one screw, it messes up our beam time."

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Imanaka and Smith suspect that such compounds are formed in Titan's upper atmosphere and eventually fall to Titan's surface.

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How complex organic molecules become nitrogenated in settings like early Earth or Titan's atmosphere is a big mystery, Imanaka said.

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Imanaka and Smith were allocated one or two time slots per year, each of which was for eight hours a day for only five to 10 days.

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