Fukushima Nuclear Crisis  (福島核危機(jī))

Radioactive substances from Fukushima has reached many countries, including the United States, China, Russia, South Korea, and Britain, and it may still take several months until the radiation-leaking power plant is brought under control.The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis refers to the series of ongoing equipment failures and release of radioactive material at the Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant, following the massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami in Japan on March 11 2011. It is considered as the most terrible nuclear accident after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. The latest news is that Japan raised the severity of its nuclear disaster to the highest level of 7, the worst on the internationally recognized scale, putting it on a par with the world's worst disaster nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986.

? Japan raises severity of nuclear accident to highest level

? Japan nuclear crisis 'totally different' from Chernobyl

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