Japan Nuclear Agency Seeks Fukushima Alert Level Upgrade
August 21st, 2013Via: BBC:
Japan’s nuclear agency wants to raise the severity level of a radioactive water leak at the Fukushima plant from one to three on an international scale.
Highly radioactive water was found to be leaking from a storage tank into the ground at the plant on Monday.
It was first classified as a level one incident on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (Ines).
But Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority proposes elevating it to level three on the seven-point scale.
This week is the first time that Japan has declared an event on the Ines scale since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
