Japan's nuclear safety agency raised the severity rating of the country's nuclear crisis from Level 4 to Level 5

Japan raises severity of nuclear accident

Japan's nuclear safety agency raised the severity rating of the country's nuclear crisis from Level 4 to Level 5

Ryohei Shiomi, a spokesman for the nuclear safety agency, said on Friday that the agency raised the rating of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear crisis on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The scale defines a Level 4 incident as having local consequences and a Level 5 incident as having wider consequences.

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18 Mar '11, 1pm
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