Of course this being the Guardian the can't resist some liberal smarter-than-thou contrary comment:
Some experts criticised the move as excessive. "I think raising it to the level of Chernobyl is excessive," said Murray Jennex, associate professor at San Diego State University. "It's nowhere near that level. Chernobyl was terrible – it blew and they had no containment, and they were stuck.
"The containment has been holding, the only thing that hasn't is the fuel pool that caught fire. I don't see those as the same event. If they want to do that, that's fine. I think they're being overly pessimistic."
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But given how the Japanese government has been trying to save international public face from the outset I wouldn't overerestimate any of their 'reassuring' statements, because the situation is not yet stable and probably won't be for some time:
“If the leaks continue, the total radiation from the reactors may exceed” that from Chernobyl, Junichi Matsumoto, general manager of one of the utility's nuclear divisions, said in Tokyo today.
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Word to the wise, stay away from Japan.
They should make a level which starts just before the quake hits. You then have to race to complete objectives before the Tsunami hits and the nuclear plant explodes, or something.
Or survive after it
I have a feeling, given a few years, that something with a small link to this event will be released. Some may say "well the Boxing Day tsunami didn't have a game made out of it"...but who the fuck cares? They were brown people. This was a Westernised Nation!
:rolleyes: