Japan rates severity of June nuclear exposure accident as level 2

The Nuclear Regulation Authority said Wednesday that it assessed the severity of a nuclear exposure accident in June in eastern Japan provisionally as level 2 on the zero-to-seven international scale.The June 6 accident at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency's Oarai Research and Development Center in Ibaraki Prefecture, east of Tokyo, left five workers internally exposed to radiation although no harmful consequences were detected for the surrounding environment.Level 2 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale is a stage defined as an "incident." The Fukushima nuclear accident, t…READ FULL ARTICLE