Breaking News: Japan to raise nuclear crisis rating to Chernobyl level

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Breaking News Alert: Japan to raise nuclear crisis rating to Chernobyl level

April 11, 2011 9:40:23 PM

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Japanese authorities planned Tuesday to raise their rating of the severity of

the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis to the highest level on an international

scale, equal to that of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, according to the Kyodo news agency.

A level 7 accident, according to the International Nuclear and Radiological

Event Scale, is typified by a “major release of radioactive material with

widespread health and environmental effects.â€

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