Tokyo, currently battling the negative fallouts from the nuclear crisis that resulted from the almost 10-point magnitude earthquake that wreaked unprecedented havocs in March, has recently upgraded the severity of the destructions at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima atomic station to seven, the highest level on the IAEA scale, thus putting it on par with the world’s most devastating Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
The move has raised eyebrows across the world, as experts fail to see a parallel between the two nuclear disasters. For instance, reacting to the news, Sergei Kiriyenko, Russia’s top nuclear official, noted it is hard to understand why Tokyo had taken such decision. “I suspect this is more of a financial than a nuclear issue, as our estimates have put the severity level at most between 5 and 6.”
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