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Fukushima nuclear crisis now rated at maximum level 7

Japan’s reactor crisis hits maximum level, equal to Chernobyl Rick Wallace, Tokyo corresponden The Australian * April 12, 2011 JAPAN will upgrade the rating of the Fukushima nuclear crisis to the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the former Soviet Union.

News of the re-rating of the nuclear crisis came as Japan’s main island, Honshu, was battered by another series of strong aftershocks today.

Japan’s chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano confirmed this morning that the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant would be upgraded from a level 5 to a level 7, which is the maximum, on the international scale…..Japan’s reactor crisis hits maximum level, equal to Chernobyl | The Australian

April 12, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | - Fukushima 2011