Japan Rates Nuke Spill Chernobyl-like Level 7
The government of Japan provisionally raised the category of the nuclear emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant to Level 7, the maximum possible.
The 1986 Chernobyl disaster was also in this category, though CNN reports that scientists say only a tenth of the radiation released at Chernobyl has been released in Japan.
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