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Originally Posted by CJ Man
I was listening to Hannity and they said it's only at a class 3. 3 mile island was a 5. Chernobyl was a 7!
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Depends on who spins it. Some call it a 5, some call it a 4, others a 3 (Fox gets funding from B&W who had a hand in designing the reactors at TMI and by extension Fukushima via General Electric).
A 7 is the be all end all incident. Simply can't get worse than Chernobyl (where actual chunks of fissile material from the reactor became airborne in the blast). There's only been one class 6 and that was a Soviet nuclear waste disposal site back in '67.
The IAEA OFFICIALLY has not given it a class since it is ongoing. But with the current problem at the 4th reactor and the damage to Reactor #2 it could possibly set it in Class 4/5 territory due to the release of radiation into the atmosphere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...ar_Event_Scale