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TOKYO — Japan’s nuclear agency says the amount of radioactive cesium leaked from a tsunami-hit nuclear plant is about equal to 168 of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima.
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said the estimate released Friday was requested by a parliamentary panel. But it said a simple comparison between an instantaneous bomb blast and long-term accidental leak is impossible.
NISA has said the radiation leaked from Fukushima was about one-sixth of what the Chernobyl disaster released in 1986. The Associated Press
