Japan has raised the nuclear alert level from four to five as fears mount over the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. The scale goes up to a maximum of seven – the level reached by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
This comes at a time when thousands of evacuees are struggling for food and water, unknowing if they will ever be able to return to their flooded homes. Their plight was accentuated by heavy snow overnight.
Recent figures confirm over 6,000 deaths and more than 10,000 still missing as Japan continues to recover from the earthquake and tsunami seven days ago.
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