TOKYO -- Japan ranked its nuclear crisis at the highest possible severity on an international scale -- the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster -- even as it insisted Tuesday that radiation leaks ...

LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) - As Japan considers burying its destroyed nuclear reactors in concrete, as at Chernobyl, other aspects of the disaster at Fukushima have also drawn comparisons with the ...

TOKYO (AP) - Japan ranked its nuclear crisis at the highest possible severity on an international scale - the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster - even as it insisted Tuesday that radiation ...

In 1999, Japan faced its worst nuclear disaster at Tokaimura, later called “Japan’s Chernobyl.” This documentary explores how a simple mistake led to deadly radiation exposure and long-lasting ...

TOKYO (AP) -- Japan raised the crisis level at its crippled nuclear plant Tuesday to a severity on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, citing high overall radiation leaks that have contaminated the ...

TOKYO -- Japan's top government spokesman said Japanese regulators will soon announce a revision of the severity of the crisis at the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, amid reports ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. TOKYO • Japan's nuclear regulators raised the severity level of the crisis at a stricken nuclear plant today to rank it on par ...

TOKYO — Japan's nuclear regulators raised the severity level of the crisis at a stricken nuclear plant Tuesday to rank it on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, citing the amount of radiation ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan ranked its nuclear crisis at the highest possible severity on an international scale — the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster — even as it insisted Tuesday that radiation ...

Japan ranked its nuclear crisis at the highest possible severity on an international scale - the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster - even as it insisted Tuesday that radiation leaks are ...