Japan raises nuclear disaster to Chernobyl level

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Japan has decided to raise the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear disaster from 5 to 7, according to government sources, a severity level only previously seen in Chernobyl, reports Kyodo News. The country’s Nuclear Safety Commission today found that at times after the breach, the plant was emitting some 10,000 terabecquerels of radioactive materials an hour. That number is now 1 terabecquerel, but raising the severity level is an indicator of the total radiation that escaped from the plant. The previous Level 5 was the same as the Three Mile Island disaster.

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Bill17
12 years ago

I appreciated reading this.

dp1053
12 years ago

So the severity level went from “Oh Shit” to “We Are Really Fucked.” Isn’t it time to have one global nuclear agency with the authority to step in and take over? These issues affect the whole planet, fallout knows no national boundries.

12 years ago

Given Hiroshima and Nagasaki I’ve always been gobsmacked that Japan embraced nuclear power as they did. Including the ‘missing’ the death toll is around 60,000 last I heard. The size of a crowd in a Premiership football stadium. Hard to take it in really.

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