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Tepco building wall between Fukushima nuclear plant and ocean

100 foot deep wall at Fukushima plant still being built, says Tepco — Trying to keep underground contamination from ocean — Years from completion? http://enenews.com/tepco-100-foot-deep-underground-wall-being-built-to-try-and-stop-water-from-seeping-out-of-plant-and-into-ocean-will-take-until-mid-2014 October 25th, 2012

 Title: Fish Off Fukushima, Japan, Show Elevated Levels of Cesium

Source: New York Times

Author:  HIROKO TABUCHI
 October 25, 2012

To stop water from seeping out of the plant, Tokyo Electric is building a 2,400-foot-long wall between the site’s reactors and the ocean. But [Yoshikazu Nagai, a spokesman for Tepco] said the steel-and-concrete wall, which will reach 100 feet underground, will take until mid-2014 to build.

October 27, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Fukushima 2012