André - Claude Lacoste , United States President of France ’s national organization for nuclear safety — Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire — order that Japan may be underplay the importance of the crisis , pointing out that we are “ at least on level 5 and perhaps even level 6 . ” Lacoste says that , despite what the the IAEA is enunciate , a possible Chernobyl can not be ruled out . The IRSN is responsible for for the safety of 58 nuclear reactors in Gallic soil — three times more reactors than Japan .
An exercise of a level 5 atomic event was the March 28 , 1979 Three Mile Island in Harrisburg , PA , where design and operation errors lead to partial pic of nuclear fuel rods and partial meltdown . As a termination , radioactive gases were released to the atmosphere .
atomic Event Level 5
Impact on People and Environment
• special sacking of radioactive material probable to require implementation of some planned countermeasures .
• Several deaths from radiation .
encroachment on Radiological Barriers and Control
• stern hurt to reactor core .
• Release of big quantities of radioactive textile within an installation with a in high spirits chance of meaning public exposure . This could arise from a major criticalness chance event or fire .
After keep the crisis management at the interior level , the Japanese government is now postulate for help from theIAEA(International Atomic Energy Agency ) , according to Yukiya Amano , director of the United Nations nuclear establishment . Amano say that it ca n’t go up to a spirit level 7 because the nuclear reactor design cause this extreme case impossible .
As of March 13 , 185,000 residents had been evacuate from towns around the Fukushima Daiichi and Fukushima Daini atomic flora . [ Eastern Time RepublicainandIAEA ]
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