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Japan Raises Nuclear Plant Crisis Severity To 7
darkonc writes "Early Tuesday in Japan, the government decided to
raise the severity level of the accident to the maximum 7 on an international scale, up from the current 5 and matching that of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe. The government declared the level 7 emergency because it is now estimated that the crippled plant was emitting over 10,000 terabecquerels of radioactivity for a number of hours at the height of the nuclear incident. Previously, on Monday, the government had expanded the evacuation zone around the plant to include at least 6 cities up to 60 km away from the plant. These cities, outside of the current 20-30 km evacuation area, are now expected to exceed the 20 millisieverts/year limit on residual radiation established by International Commission on Radiological Protection and the International Atomic Energy Agency in the case of an emergency."
typical /. pro-nuclear apologetic comments arriving in 3..2..1..meltdown!
My nuclear meltdown scale goes to 11.
It's one worse.
Just because you sold your soul to the devil that needn't make you a teetotaler. --The Devil and Daniel Webster
It sort of does when you make the comment using a computer that uses electricity, at least over short-medium terms.
I'm peddling like hell to run this laptop you insensitive clod.