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updated 11:07 p.m.EDT, Mon April 11, 2011

My story on two journalists who defied the evacuation zone order, on CNN.com: Anatomy of a ghost town - http://bit.ly/fw7X5B #cnn - @KyungLahCNN

#Japan's Cabinet Secy Edano on elevation to level 7: "This is a very big accident. We apologize to the people of Japan & internt'l cmty." - @KyungLahCNN

NISA: Amount of radioactive iodine released by #Japan's damaged reactors is 10% of Chernobyl disaster http://on.cnn.com/fAxmQN - @cnnbrk

NISA says est release of radiation from Fukushima is 10% of the Chernobyl disaster. - @KyungLahCNN

#Japan "provisionally" declares nuclear accident a level 7 event, putting it on par with Chernobyl http://on.cnn.com/fAxmQN - @cnnbrk

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Nuclear threat level raised

Crisis rates in most severe category

Japanese authorities "provisionally" declared the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident a level 7 event, putting the crisis on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

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