Monday, April 11, 2011

Gas Prices Rise, and Economists Look for Fallout - NYTimes.com

Gas prices are approaching record highs, but so far most Americans do not appear to be drastically cutting back their driving or even their spending as they did in 2008.

Japan's nuke crisis now on Chernobyl level | Stuff.co.nz

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Japan Raising Nuclear Crisis Level To Highest - Jackson News Story - WAPT Jackson

News reports say Japan has decided to raise the severity level of the crisis at its tsunami-stricken nuclear power plant to 7 -- the highest level and equal to the 1986 disaster at Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union.

Quoting sources at Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, Kyodo News agency and public broadcaster NHK both said Tuesday that NISA would raise the severity level of the nuclear radiation disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant to 7 from the current 5.

NISA spokesman Minoru Oogoda declined to confirm the reports.