Reply #19: you have been hearing it, because media is not always being careful with their [View All]

[Hannah Bell]

reporting.

not calling you out, just saying.

Fukushima I nuclear accidents, Japan, 2011; ongoing. Thousands of residents were evacuated after earthquake and tsunami caused loss of coolant. Hydrogen explosions later destroyed reactor buildings, and two reactors entered a state of partial meltdown after fuel rods were exposed to air. INES rating rating for this disaster was initially declared as Level 4, but after subsequent explosions, Andre-Claude Lacoste, president of France's nuclear safety authority, suggested that it is in fact Level 6. There has been no official rating from either Japanese officials or the IAEA.<13>.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Event_Scale#cite_note-12