disaster at Chernobyl
The crisis at a stricken nuclear plant on the northeast coast of Japan is now as severe as the 
 in 1986, officials have said. Radiation is continuing to leak from the plant, which was damaged during the devastating magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami last month, which left thousands dead. Japanese authorities have warned the crisis is now a "major accident" with "wider consequences" than previously thought.
Crisis at stricken Japan nuclear plant escalates to level of Chernobyl; six killed in aftershock