TOKYO (MarketWatch) —
Japanese nuclear-safety authorities Tuesday raised their assessment of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant to the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
But a Nuclear Safety Commission official speaking on national television said the amount of radiation leaking from the Fukushima plant so far was only around 10% of that released in the deadly accident in the former Soviet Union.
Regulators now put the crisis at level 7, the highest possible rating on the International New data released by the EPA show the spread of radioactive iodine from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear accident to Philadelphia’s drinking-water supply.
Level 7, the most serious level on the IAEA’s scale, is used to describe an event comprised of “a major release of radioactive material with widespread health and environmental effects requiring implementation of planned and extended countermeasures.”
The Fukushima situation had previously been rated at level 5, on par with the U.S. nuclear accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in 1979. Level 5 indicates a “limited release” of radioactive materials requiring “some planned countermeasures.”
“The new provisional rating considers the accidents that occurred at [Fukushima reactor] Units 1, 2 and 3 as a single event,” the IAEA said on its Web site.
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