April 12 The operator of Japan's crippled
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said on Tuesday that they
are concerned that the radiation leakage could eventually exceed
that of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
"The radiation leak has not stopped completely and our
concern is that it could eventually exceed Chernobyl," an
official from operator Tokyo Electric and Power told
reporters on Tuesday.
Japan on Tuesday raised the severity of its nuclear crisis
at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to a level 7 from 5,
putting it on par with the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.
The emission of radioactive substances from the Daiichi
plant is about 10 percent of the amount that had been detected
at Chernobyl, Japan's nuclear safety agency said earlier on
(Reporting by Shinichi Saoshiro, editing by Jonathan Thatcher)