Friday, March 18, 2011

BBC News - Japan earthquake: Fukushima nuclear alert level raised

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.

The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog warned in Tokyo the battle to stabilise the plant was a race against time.

The crisis was prompted by last week's huge quake and tsunami, which has left at least 16,000 people dead or missing.

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