TEPCO: Japan's nuclear crisis could be WORSE than Chernobyl; affect global food supply

Fukushima crisis now at Chernobyl level By KANAKO TAKAHARA, KAZUAKI NAGATA and MASAMI ITO Staff writers The government's nuclear watchdog raised its severity assessment of the nuclear crisis at Fukushima No.1 power plant to the highest level of 7 from 5 under the international standard Tuesday, which is only on par with the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe of former Soviet Union, the world's worst nuclear power disaster in history. The latest assessment highlights Tokyo's

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