Fukushima's nuclear disaster defense? A massive underground ice wall

Fukushima's nuclear disaster defense? A massive underground ice wall

5 years ago
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https://www.cnet.com/news/fukushimas-nuclear-disaster-defense-a-massive-underground-ice-wall/

It turns out, coolant is running through the pipes, freezing the soil below and creating an impermeable ice wall that's nearly 100 feet deep and a mile long, encircling the reactors.

It's like a smaller-scale subterranean version of the Wall in Game of Thrones, but instead of keeping out White Walkers and wights, this line of defense keeps in a far more realistic danger: radioactive contaminants from melted-down reactors that threaten to spill into the water by Fukushima Daiichi.