Comments:Estimated 300-ton radioactive leak at Fukushima rated 'serious incident' by watchdog

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First, thank you for another quality piece of journalism from Wikinews. Then, relating to subject of this comment, posting at http://www.sciencecodex.com/fukushima_radioactive_plume_to_reach_us_in_3_years-118258 suggests that wider (beyond "local") consequence and higher level on the INES described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_and_Radiological_Event_Scale.