Rating 7 cites high overall radiation leaks that have contaminated the air, tap water, vegetables and seawater.
This reconfirms that this is an extremely major disaster - japanese chief cabinet secretary Edano.
cumulative amount of radioactive particles released into the atmosphere since the incident had reached levels that apply to a Level 7 incident
The government says the Chernobyl incident released 5.2 million terabecquerels into the air - about 10 times that of the Fukushima plant.
If the leaks continue, the amount of radioactivity released in Fukushima could eventually exceed the amount emitted by Chernobyl, a possibility that Naoki Tsunoda, a TEPCO spokesman, said the company considers "extremely low."
Engineers have pumped water into the damaged reactors to cool them down, but leaks have resulted in the pooling of tons of contaminated, radioactive water that has prevented workers from conducting further repairs.
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