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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."
> How many major disasters would it take for you to admit it is a bad idea
The pro-nuke types _can't_ admit that. Even the prospect of long term evacuation of cities in a highly technological culture and one of the densest population areas in the world is not enough for them to admit that maybe nuclear has consequences that other forms of energy don't have. A coal plant doesn't make large areas of land uninhabitable for decades, and nuclear does, but they can't admit this. No amount of evidence such as from Chernobyl is ever enough when you are blinded by ideology.
So what you're saying is that the industry can't even create a good rating scale for its accidents.
Classic anti-nuclear idiocy. The rating does exactly what its suppose to do. The fact you're too stupid to understand the purpose of the rating doesn't validate your propaganda in the least. Contrary to your assertion, your idiocy only validates your idiocy. Your idiocy is not damning of the nuclear industry in the least nor does it remove the need for accident severity ratings so as to garner international assistance.
Using your idiocy, all rating systems have absolutely no value because they have no meaning outside of their intended scope and purpose. So your argument boils down to the richter scale having no value and enhanced fujita scales have no value. Please note, contrary to your stupidity, neither of those scales denote the scale of damage in any way. They only measure the forces involved. The scale and scope of damage is strictly dictated by the individual incident, its monetary damages, and total toll to human life. As such, this is no different - contrary to your trolling and idiotic propaganda.
Why am I not surprised that a complete fucking idiot also happens to be an anti-nuclear propagandist.