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April 29, 2016

$320M ice wall at Fukushima plant could leak 50 tons of tainted water each day

  • Ground water has been flowing into the plant, where it becomes radiated and then seeps back out.
    • By YURI KAGEYAMA and MARI YAMAGUCHI
    Associated Press

    TOKYO — Coping with the vast amounts of ground water flowing into the broken Fukushima nuclear plant — which then becomes radiated and seeps back out — has become such a problem that Japan is building a $312 million “ice wall” into the earth around it.

    But even if the frozen barrier built with taxpayers’ money works as envisioned, it won’t completely block all water from reaching the damaged reactors because of gaps in the wall and rainfall, creating as much as 50 tons of contaminated water each day, said Yuichi Okamura, a chief architect of the massive project.


     
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