Japan nuclear crisis level increased
Posted Mar 18, 2011 01:57:00 PM.
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Japanese officials now rate their nuclear crisis on a level with the 1979 Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania.
They moved it up a notch on an international scale from a level 4 to a level 5. That’s after nuclear experts had been saying for days that Japan was underplaying the severity of the problem.
Police now say more than 7,200 people are dead and more than 11,000 remain missing following last week’s earthquake and tsunami.
Relief supplies are just trickling into the long strip of northeastern Japan. Blustery snow, fuel shortages and widespread damage to airports, roads and rails have hampered delivery of badly needed assistance to the more than 450,000 left homeless.
