On Tuesday, April 12, members of the International Atomic Energy Agency raised the alert level of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi reactor incident from a five to a seven, the worst level on the international scale.
The last time a nuclear fallout incident has reached this alert level was in 1985, during the infamous Chernobyl incident which left the city of Pripyat and surrounding area uninhabitable even today. Experts dispute the amount of radiation that has already been released. Even though radiation levels have not passed that of Chernobyl, leaking has not stopped and experts fear that it could very easily surpass the Ukrainian disaster.
