sharon sanders
Editor-in-Chief & President
18 March 2011 Last updated at 08:31 ET Japan raises nuclear alert level
Japan has raised the alert level at a stricken nuclear plant from four to five on a seven-point international scale for atomic incidents.
The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi site is now two levels below Ukraine's 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
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Decision to raise the alert level to five grades Fukushima's as an "accident with wider consequences".
It also places the situation there on a par with 1979's Three Mile Island nuclear accident in the US.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12783832
Japan has raised the alert level at a stricken nuclear plant from four to five on a seven-point international scale for atomic incidents.
The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi site is now two levels below Ukraine's 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
snip
Decision to raise the alert level to five grades Fukushima's as an "accident with wider consequences".
It also places the situation there on a par with 1979's Three Mile Island nuclear accident in the US.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12783832