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NOVANEWS  Majestic Super Typhoon LEKIMA. SW-IR satellite image recorded at 14:30UTC on October 24, 2013. Temperature of the patch located to the right of the typhoon’s eye measures about 150ºK (< minus 123ºC) making it the coldest place on or near planet Earth. Image sourced from: CIMSS/SSEC/WISC. Mysterious Energy Pulse Threatens Typhoon “Business” By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor This week, one typhoon and one tropical storm simply vanished while heading toward Japan.  They were abruptly turned northward, sparing Japan and then simply vanished. The MSM has responded with a news blackout.  There are no explanations. YouTube - Veterans Today - Days before, the events were predicted in an article on Veterans Today, citing plans by a defense group to use a Tesla based energy system to disru...

NOVANEWS By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research What prevails is a well organized camouflage. The public health disaster in Japan, the contamination of water, agricultural land and the food chain, not to mention the broader economic and social implications, have neither been fully acknowledged nor addressed in a comprehensive and meaningful fashion by the Japanese authorities. The crisis in Japan has been described as “a nuclear war without a war”. In the words of renowned novelist Haruki Murakami: “This time no one dropped a bomb on us ... We set the stage, we committed the crime with our own hands, we are destroying our own lands, and we are destroying our own lives.” Several Global Research reports and background articles have outlined the dangers of Worldwide radiation resulting...

NOVANEWS OKUMA, JAPAN – In this handout image provided by Tokyo Electric Power Co, leaked radioactive water remains near the tank at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on August 19, 2013 in Okuma, Fukushima, Japan. An estimated 300 tons of highly radioactive water has leaked from a tank at the Fukushima nuclear plant, with much of the polluted water apparently seeping into the ground. (Photo by Tokyo Electric Power Co via Getty Images) As if another nuclear bomb has been dropped on Japan and the rest of the world, the MOX nuclear facility threatens the health of all living things. JAPAN, FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE (INTELLIHUB) — Thursday, a plant storage tank’s radiation readings spiked 6500 times above Wednesday’s mandatory daily reading after a typhoon struck the island inducing a shi...

NOVANEWS Fence made of silt that sits in harbor has been breached, TEPCO admits, sparking further concern of ocean contamination - Andrea Germanos IAEA experts examine recovery work on top of Unit 4 of TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on 17 April 2013. (Photo: Greg Webb / IAEA)In the latest in a series of mishaps to hit the crisis-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, a radiation-stopping "fence" around the reactors has developed a hole, plant operator TEPCO admitted on Thursday. Fences made of earth and sand sit in the harbor next to the plant and were erected to help contain radioactive material from flowing into the ocean.  They "are suspended from floats and anchored with weights on the seafloor," the Japan Times explains. One of the fences that sits next to still...

NOVANEWS Ambassador Mitsuhei Murata [*Ed: This page was updated on 4/5/12 to reflect corrected calculations] By Akio Matsumura This article is available in Japanese and German and Russian. Japan’s former Ambassador to Switzerland, Mr. Mitsuhei Murata, was invited to speak at the Public Hearing of the Budgetary Committee of the House of Councilors on March 22, 2012, on the Fukushima nuclear power plants accident. Before the Committee, Ambassador Murata strongly stated that if the crippled building of reactor unit 4—with 1,535 fuel assemblies in the spent fuel pool 100 feet (30 meters) above the ground—collapses, not only will it cause a shutdown of all six reactors but will also affect the common spent fuel pool containing 6,375 fuel assemblies, located some 50 meters from reactor 4. I...

NOVANEWS Radioactive water leaking from Fukushima plant By William West On Aug. 19, workers at the devastated Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan discovered puddles of water around a storage tank for contaminated water located near the damaged nuclear reactor. They have since discovered that 300 tons of highly radioactive water has leaked from the tank and could contaminate the Pacific Ocean. The cleanup of the plant has been run by its owner, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), the same capitalists whose criminal negligence led to a nuclear meltdown after an earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. On Aug. 22, the Japanese Nuclear Radiation Authority, which usually functions to whitewash the threat of nuclear energy, described the leaking water as a “worst-case scenario” and th...

NOVANEWS Regulators acknowledge that crisis is worsening amid constant flow of bad news at crippled nuclear plant - Jon Queally Water woes: Workers stand atop a tank for highly radioactive water at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power complex Tuesday, where one container was found to have leaked 300 tons of water the same day. (Photo: KYODO)In the most serious action since the nuclear plant was first damaged in 2011, Japan's Nuclear Regulatory Authority is on the verge of raising the international alarm—and the official threat level—over the spiraling crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. By elevating the severity status from level 1 to level 3 on the eight-level International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES), the NRA has made a clear indication that the situation is worsenin...

NOVANEWS Plans are in the works to make the site of one of history’s worst nuclear disasters a tourist attraction. By Paul Lawrance The idea is to build a community on the edge of the exclusion zone that extends 25 miles from the reactor. This community comes equipped with restaurants, souvenir shops and hotels that have been built to protect guests from elevated levels of radiation. The highlight of the visit will be a trip into the unstable reactors’ perimeter fence. All to serve as a reminder of how the nuclear plant was crippled during a earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. I thought vacations were to escape the horrors that life brought us? Not for the purpose of entering them. Why would anyone be attracted to a nuclear disaster site that has been killing those who have tried to con...

NOVANEWS The following are 11 facts about the ongoing Fukushima nuclear holocaust that are almost too horrifying to believe… (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images) By Michael Snyder Is Fukushima the greatest environmental disaster of all time?  Every single day, 300 tons of radioactive water from Fukushima enters the Pacific Ocean.  The radioactive material that is being released will outlive all of us by a very wide margin, and it is constantly building up in the food chain. Nobody knows for sure how many people will eventually develop cancer and other health problems as a result of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, but some experts are not afraid to use the word “billions”. It has been well over two years since the original disaster, and now they are telling us that it could take up ...

NOVANEWS Attempt to remove fuel rods from crippled building could cause “unprecedented” disaster (Photo by Daniel Berehulak /Getty Images) By Jacob Chamberlain Threatening to trigger a new—and possibly more devastating—nuclear disaster than the original or ongoing one at the Fukishima plant in Japan, a risky plan to remove fuel rods from a damaged reactor building could unleash an “unprecedented” level of radiation, according to experts, if things go wrong. According to reporting by Reuters, the radioactive material within the fuel rods slated for removal are equivalent to 14,000 times the amount released in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the plan to move them “has never been attempted before on this scale.” The 400 tons of highly irradiated spent fuel and other nuclear materials wil...