Sun, March 13, 2011
TOKYO, March 12 - Japan's nuclear safety agency rated an accident at an earthquake-hit nuclear plant at four on the international scale from 0 to 7, an official said Sunday.
On the International Nuclear Event Scale, a level four incident means a nuclear reactor accident "with local consequences".
The 1979 Three Mile Island accident in the United States was rated five while the 1986 Chernobyl disaster was a seven.
(Agencies)
