Japan Nuclear Rating Raised to Highest Level

By Daniel Halper
Published April 12, 2011 1:09pm ET
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Japan Nuclear Rating Raised to Highest Level
The Washington Post reports: Japanese authorities on Tuesday raised the severity rating of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant to the highest level on an international scale, on a par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Officials from Japan’s nuclear agency reclassified the ongoing emergency from Level 5, an “accident with off-site risk,” […]

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