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Decision will make severity level of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-plant accident equal to 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

News reports say Japan has decided to raise the severity level of the crisis at its stricken nuclear power plant to 7 – the highest level and equal to the 1986 disaster at Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union.

Quoting sources at Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, Japan’s nuclear safety watchdog, Kyodo News agency and public broadcaster NHK both said on Tuesday that NISA would raise the severity level of the nuclear radiation disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant to 7 from the current 5. . . . (more)

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/04/2011411233913766598.html