Japan Raises Its Nuclear Disaster to the Highest, Level 7

Japan officially admits this is a full blown crisis: radiation is massive and still going on.

From NHK:

For a series of accidents happening at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency of the Ministry of Economy, which released large amounts of radioactive substances that affect human health and the environment in a wide range. As an assessment based on international standards of the accident, the worst "level seven" decided to raise. "Level 7" is the same as the evaluation occurred in the Soviet Chernobyl disaster. Nuclear Safety Agency, 12, held a press conference with the Nuclear Safety Commission has decided to publish the contents of the evaluation.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20110412/t10015249911000.html