**Breaking News** Nuclear Disaster Threat level raised to 7

Japanese authorities Tuesday "provisionally" declared the country's nuclear accident a level-7 event on the international scale for nuclear disasters -- the highest level -- putting it on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency announced the new level Tuesday morning. It had previously been at 5. Regulators have determined the amount of radioactive iodine released by the damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

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