Japan has said that the crisis at a quake-hit nuclear plant was as serious as the Chernobyl incident in 1986. Japanese nuclear safety agency raised the level of severity of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant by two points to level seven on Monday, which is the highest rating and on the same scale as the Chernobyl disaster. The move, together with ongoing quake aftershocks that have slowed down recovery efforts, sent waves of fear across the globe.

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The water that men working at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant were exposed to had thousand times the quantity of radiation normal for that facility, said Hidehiko Nishiyama, an official of the Japanese industrial and nuclear safety agency. He also said that the contamination was likely from the core of the No.3 reactor. According to Nishiyama, there is a possibility of a leak of some sort, perhaps from a breakage in the unit’s containment vessel. The report has raised concerns over the measures to control radiation as over 500 people, including firefighters and government authorities, continued to work there on Friday.

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