It’s difficult to know exactly what degree of danger the Japanese nuclear reactors pose at this stage. CNN quotes Andre-Claude Lacoste, president of France’s nuclear safety authority, as saying: “It’s clear we are at Level 6, that’s to say we’re at a level in between what happened at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.” Let us hope he is wrong.
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