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Is Japan's crisis really as severe as Chernobyl?

Peter Finocchiaro
Volunteers cook noodles for evacuees at an evacuation center in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Monday, April 11, 2011, a month after an earthquake and tsunami struck the east coast. A group of 21 volunteers from Tokyo and Saitama brought Sunday 2,000 meals for about over 500 evacuees at the shelter. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae) (AP)

Yuri Kageyama, Ryan Nakashima
FILE - In this undated file photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co., the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant reactors stand in line intact in Okuma town in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Radiation has covered the area around the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant and blanketed parts of the complex, making the job of rendering the plant safe so that it doesn't threaten public health and the environment, or "decommissioning", a bigger task than usual. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.,File) (AP)

Charles Hutzler, Mari Yamaguchi
A staff of a supermarket prepares foods at the facilities with no electricity in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan Friday, April 8, 2011. A big aftershock rocked quake-weary Japan late Thursday, rattling nerves as it knocked out power to the northern part of the country and prompted tsunami warnings that were later canceled. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) (AP)

Tomoko A. Hosaka, Jay Alabaster
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A Buddhist monk Sokan Obara, 28, from Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, prays for the victims in the debris in the area devastated by the March 11 tsunami in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, Thursday, April 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) (AP)

Cara Rubinsky
A worker of a fish market reacts in an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan Wednesday, April 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) (AP)

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Peter Finocchiaro
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Members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force gather to search the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami devastated area in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, Saturday, April 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) (AP)

Mari Yamaguchi, Eugene Hoshiko
In this photo taken Friday, March 25, 2011, a man walks at the devastated city of Onagawa, Miyagi prefecture, northeastern Japan. As March 11 massive tsunami ravaged this Japanese fishing town, hundreds of residents fled for the safest place they knew: the local nuclear power plant. More than two weeks later, 240 remain, watching TV or playing ball games with their children next to three atomic reactors. It's a startling contrast to the troubled nuclear plant 75 miles (120 kilometers) southeast, where radiation leaks have forced an evacuation of nearby towns, terrifying the nation. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) (AP)

Mari Yamaguchi
A survivor cuts woods for fire to warm at a shelter in the devastated town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Monday, March 28, 2011. The March 11 quake off Japan's northeast coast triggered a tsunami that barreled onshore and disabled the Fukushima nuclear complex. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) (AP)

Rebecca Solnit
A protester holds a placard during an antinuclear rally in Tokyo Sunday, March 27, 2011. Leaked water in Unit 2 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant measured 10 million times higher than usual radioactivity levels when the reactor is operating normally, Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman Takashi Kurita told reporters in Tokyo. "Genpatsu" on the sign means "nuclear power plant." (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye) (AP)

Shino Yuasa
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Peter Finocchiaro
A protester in protective mask holds a placard during an anti nuclear rally in Tokyo, Sunday, March 27, 2011. Leaked water in Unit 2 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant measured 10 million times higher than usual radioactivity levels when the reactor is operating normally, Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman Takashi Kurita told reporters in Tokyo. The placard has a message that reads "Don't spread radioactive substance." (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye) (AP)

Huge radiation spike at Japan plant was a mistake

Yuri Kageyama, Mari Yamaguchi
U.S. Navy's barge YOGN-115, back, is towed by Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force's multi purpose support ship off the coast of Isumi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, Saturday, March 26, 2011. The barge carrying 1.04 million liters (275,000 gallons) of fresh water departed Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY) Friday to support cooling efforts at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Yasushi Kanno) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT (AP)

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi
Medical workers in protective gear gather around an ambulance which arrived at a hospital in Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, carrying two workers from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant after they stepped into contaminated water while laying electrical cables in one unit Thursday, March 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Jun Yasukawa) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT (AP)

Jeff Donn, Shino Yuasa
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In this photo from a footage of a live camera released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), black smoke billows from the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, northeastern Japan,Tuesday, March 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

Chip Ward
A mother feeds her baby at an evacuation center in Yamagata Prefecture, northern Japan, Thursday, March 24, 2011. Hundreds of thousands remain homeless, squeezed into temporary shelters without heat, warm food or medicine and no idea what to call home after the March 11 tsunami swallowed up communities along the coast and dozens of strong aftershocks continued to shake the nation. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) (AP)

Tomoko A. Hosaka, Shino Yuasa
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Elaine Kurtenbach, Shino Yuasa
The author, center, with his wife, two children and brother-in-law.

Mike Plugh
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In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), gray smoke rises from Unit 3 of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Monday, March 21, 2011. Official says the TEPCO temporarily evacuated its workers from the site. At left is Unit 2 and at right is Unit 4. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

Tom Engelhardt
An elderly Japanese woman searches for her belongings in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami-destroyed town of Rikuzentakata, northeastern Japan, Monday, March 21, 2011. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder) (AP)

Andrew Leonard
In this Sunday, March 20, 2011 photo, a classroom burned by a fire is seen in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami-destroyed city of Ishinomaki, northern Japan.(AP Photo/Mainichi Shimbun, Takashi Morita) JAPAN OUT, NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDIT (AP)

Todd Pitman
In this Sept. 2010 photo, Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers are seen at work at the central control room of reactor Unit 3 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex at Okumamachi, northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

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