Building a Wall Of Ice: Japanese Engineers To Construct Novel New Means To Attempt To Control Radiation Leakage At Fukushima

Building a Wall Of Ice: Japanese Engineers To Construct Novel New Means To Attempt To Control Radiation Leakage At Fukushima
A Wall Of Ice: Japanese Engineers Come Up With A Novel–And Untested–Way To Contain Radioactive Leakage In the wake of the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear facility in Japan, one of the biggest problems facing the cleanup crews is that radioactive water has been and continues to leak from the damaged reactors. But now the engineers working for the plant’s operator, TEPCO think they have hit on a novel new way to contain the leakage: a wall of ice.… Read the rest