Japan raises nuclear accident severity level

Japan raises nuclear accident severity level

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 12, 2011, shows employees of Tokyo Electric Power Co. holding a press conference at the company's head office in Tokyo. The government announced the same day that it had raised the severity level of the accident at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, run by Tokyo Electric and stricken by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, to the maximum 7 on an international scale, up from the previous 5 and matching that of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe.

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