Japan raises incident threat level again
The entry gave the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi site a level 5 rating, up from level 4 previously on a 1-7 scale.
That would suggest a level of seriousness on par with the Three Mile Island accident in the United States in 1979.
The threat level seems just a tad understated. A situation that is confirmed by the head of the US NCR giving a much bleaker assessment.
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Mr. JaczkoÂs most startling assertion was that there was now little or no water in the pool storing spent nuclear fuel at the No. 4 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, leaving fuel rods stored there exposed and bleeding radiation into the atmosphere.
As a result, he said, ÂWe believe that radiation levels are extremely high, which could possibly impact the ability to take corrective measures.Â
His statement was quickly but not definitively rebutted by officials of Tokyo Electric Power, the DaiichiÂs plantÂs operator, and JapanÂs nuclear regulatory agency.
ÂWe canÂt get inside to check, but weÂve been carefully watching the buildingÂs environs, and there has not been any particular problem, Hajime Motojuku, a spokesman for Tokyo Electric, said Thursday morning in Japan.
Jay