Japan to Raise Severity Rating for Fukushima Leaks to Level 3

Contaminated water with dangerously high levels of radiation is leaking from a storage tank at Japan's destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant, the most serious setback to the cleanup of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.

Japan will raise the severity rating of the toxic water leak at the Fukushima nuclear plant to level 3, or "serious incident", on an international scale for radiological releases, underlining the deepening sense of crisis at the site.

Japan to Raise Severity Rating for Fukushima Leaks to Level 3