{"id":4178,"date":"2011-03-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/campaign-updates\/4178\/fukushima-ines-scale-rating\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T02:21:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T02:21:54","slug":"fukushima-ines-scale-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fukushima-ines-scale-rating\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukushima \u2013 INES scale rating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"p4descriptive_paragraph\">A new analysis prepared for Greenpeace Germany by nuclear safety expert Dr Helmut Hirsch shows that by March 23 2011, Japan\u2019s nuclear crisis has already released enough radioactivity to be ranked at Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES). 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