IAEA: Jap Nuke Event Not ‘Serious Accident’

Much was made of the matter when the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was raised to level 5 on the The International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

According to the scale Level 5 is considered to be an “accident with wider consequences”.

It’s a Level 6 it becomes a “serious accident”.

Level 7 is a “major accident”.

The casualty rate as per Wikipedia as of the morning of March 21 is 37 injured (none due to radiation) and two missing.

It seems it is much better to be in an old nuclear plant during a 9 magnitude earthquake followed by a 30-foot tsunami than. say, deep in a coal mine.

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