Japan raises nuclear accident severity level

Japan raises nuclear accident severity level

TOKYO, Japan - Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, speaks about the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station at a press conference in Tokyo on April 12, 2011. The government raised the severity level of the accident at the plant to the maximum 7 on an international scale, up from the current 5 and matching that of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe.

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