Japan hikes Fukushima crisis level to 5
03/19/2011OSAKA — Japan’s nuclear safety agency on Friday raised the Fukushima crisis level to five from four on the international scale of gravity for atomic accidents which goes to as high as seven.
The decision by the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) puts Fukushima on the same level as the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania and makes it the worst ever in Japan.
UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano said Friday that Japan’s battle to stabilize a crippled nuclear plant was “a race against time.”
“This is a very grave and serious accident,” he said after meeting Prime Minister Naoto Kan, referring to the stricken Fukushima plant..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110319hed4.html
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