Japan raises nuclear accident severity level

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato (L) listens to explanations offered by an official of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (R) on April 12, 2011, in Fukushima. The government decided to raise the severity level of the accident at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, 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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