URGENT: UPDATE1:
Japan to raise nuke accident severity level to highest 7 from 5
TOKYO, April 12, Kyodo
Japan has decided to raise the severity level of the accident at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to 7, the highest on an international scale, from the current 5, government sources said Tuesday.
The sources close to the Nuclear and Industry Safety Agency under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said the Japanese government decided to raise the level to the highest 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale, which has so far only been applied to the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe.
The current provisional evaluation of 5 is at the same level as the Three Mile Island accident in the United States in 1979.
==Kyodo
My congratulations to all members of Japan Forum whu used to say that the situation at Fukushima-1 is less serious than it took place at Chernobyl NPP.
