Thread:Comments:Crisis at stricken Japan nuclear plant escalates to level of Chernobyl; six killed in aftershock/Headline

I feel the headline is a tad misleading, it could make it seem that six people have died in an explosion at the plant whereas they died in an unrelated incident in the mudslide.

This did unfortunately make me feel that the article was trying to be like the tabloids. linking in basically unrelated stories of death from the tsunamis in order to increase the perception of absolute carnage at the power plant even though it is absent.

What would have been good is if an investigation in to this severity scale had been conducted. A scale of seven seems very inadequate to me for something so serious and the fact the actual volume of radioactive materials in fukujima is a tenth of chernobyl suggest that the scale is meaningless if they're both rated a seven!