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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...

NOVANEWS The Japanese Prime Minster is said to be looking into a plan to construct a $400 million wall of ice that may or may not contain the massive ever flowing radiation leak into the earths atmosphere and ocean waters. BRIDGWATER, ENGLAND – A masked protester holds a placard at the gates to the Hinkley Point nuclear power station to mark the first anniversary of the Fukushima disaster in Japan on March 10, 2012 near Bridgwater, England. Protestors planned to blockade the site at Hinkley, which is located on the Bristol Channel and has been earmarked for a potential new nuclear power station, for 24 hours starting today. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) By Shepard Ambellas Tokyo — You know that things are getting serious on the environmental disaster scale when Japan’s Prime Minister...

NOVANEWS Contaminated groundwater accumulating under the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has risen 60cm above the protective barrier, and is now freely leaking into the Pacific Ocean, the plant’s operator TEPCO has admitted. RT Follow RT’s LIVE UPDATES on Fukushima leak emergency The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which is responsible for decommissioning the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, on Saturday said the protective barriers that were installed to prevent the flow of toxic water into the ocean are no longer coping with the groundwater levels, Itar-Tass reports. The contaminated groundwater, which mixes with radioactive leaks seeping out of the plant, has already risen to 60cm above the barriers – the fact which TEPCO calls a major cause of the massive daily lea...

NOVANEWS Fukushima is a nightmare disaster area, and no one has the slightest idea what to do. The game is to prevent the crippled nuclear plant from turning into an “open-air super reactor spectacular” which would result in a hazardous, melted catastrophe. RT On April 25, 2011 – one month after the explosions at the Fukushima nuclear plant and the anniversary of Chernobyl – I was interviewed by RT and asked to compare Chernobyl and Fukushima. The clip, which you can find on YouTube, was entitled, “Can’t seal Fukushima like Chernobyl – it all goes into the sea.” Since then, huge amounts of radioactivity have flowed from the wrecked reactors directly into the Pacific Ocean. Attempts to stop the flow of contaminated water from Fukushima into the sea were always unlikely to succeed. It is l...

NOVANEWS Japanese official says that radioactive water is in danger of breaking a final safety barrier and reaching the grounds surface. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images) By JG Vibes Just days after the Japanese government suggested that residents around Fukushima could return to their homes, a TEPCO official has declared a state of emergency saying that things could become worse than ever at the plant. Over the years since the disaster initially occurred there have been mixed signals from the governments of the world and their affiliated scientific organizations.  However most independent investigations have shown that things are far more serious than the media has been telling the public. According to Reuters: “Radioactive groundwater at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plan...

NOVANEWS Tepco Has No Idea How to Stabilize the Reactors (Photo by Daniel Berehulak /Getty Images) Washingtons Blog You’ve heard bad news about Fukushima recently. But it’s worse than you know. The Wall Street Journal notes that radiation levels outside the plant arelikely higher than inside the reactor: NRA [Nuclear Regulation Authority] officials said highly contaminated water may be leaking into the soil from a number of trenches, allowing the water to seep into the site’s groundwater and eventually into the ocean. *** Both radioactive substances are considered harmful to health. An NRA official said Monday that the very high levels were likely to be even higher than those within the reactor units themselves. *** It was by far the highest concentration of radioactivity detected since s...

  Fukushima is here, it is no longer a Japanese problem ~ it is a growing world problem which is still being ignored. Here’s an update on my report of May 14,2013 where I demonstrated that a creeping and never ending deadly fog of radiation, invisible to the eye but not to the immune system, continues to blanket the West Coast while its human cost is barely being mentioned ~ mainly due to a worldwide media blackout: by Allen L Roland   The Fukushima Genie that was released over two years ago is still spouting and leaking forth deadly radiation while silence remains supreme among the worldwide media. A new study in April of 2013 suggested that nuclear fallout from Fukushima in March of 2011 has led to significant elevated rates of congenital thyroid illness among infants born on the ...

NOVANEWS Second report of unwelcome emissions in less than one week By Jacob Chamberlain “Something like steam” continued to billow out of Fukushima’s nuclear reactor 3 building on Tuesday morning, the Tokyo Electric Power Co. said, confirming the latest omen that the ongoing nuclear catastrophe will not end any time soon. The presence of the emissions in the reactor building is the second instance in less than a week. In a worse case scenario, the steam-like substance could be the result of renewed nuclear reactions—a possibility TEPCO, the site’s operator, denied but one that could mean large amounts of radioactive substances are being released. TEPCO said workers are continuing to inject cooling water into the reactor and a pool storing nuclear fuel. Japan Times reports: Tokyo Electric...

NOVANEWS The following statement was released by citizens in the Southern part of the Fukushima prefecture in Japan. The information is far more than disturbing to say the least. ODAKA, JAPAN – A cemetery has low visibility in heavy windy about 20 km away from Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, prior to the second anniversary commemoration of the tsunami and earthquake on March 10, 2013 in Odaka where is exclusion zone , Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Japan on March 11 will commemorate the second anniversary of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and following tsunami, that claimed more than 18,000 lives. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images) From the residents of Fukushima Prefecture; Please be noted that we, residents of Fukushima Shirakawa district(southern part of Fukushima prefecture) will ...