Japan Raises Nuclear Crisis To Highest Level - The Same As Chernobyl -- The Telegraph
The Japanese government has raised the severity of the crisis at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant to 7, the highest level on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
Previously, the damage to reactors at the plant, 137 miles north of Tokyo, has been rated at level 5 on the scale, putting it on a par with the Three Mile Island accident in the United States in 1979. The government elevated the disaster by two notches, a rating that has previously only been applied to the Chernobyl accident in 1986.
The government's decision is based on a preliminary calculation by the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan.
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