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Huge underground wall for Fukushima?

water-radiation‘Great wall of Fukushima’ to be built underground? — Structure around reactors proposed  http://enenews.com/great-wall-fukushima-be-built-underground-structure-around-reactors-proposed

Title: Groundwater at No. 1 plant tainted
Source: Kyodo
Date: April 27, 2013
Great wall of Fukushima?

A government panel has begun studying ways to prevent more radioactive water from accumulating at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, including a plan to build underground walls around the damaged reactor buildings to stop groundwater from entering. […]

Proposals made by Taisei Corp. and Kajima Corp. Friday included building a subterranean wall around the reactor buildings using a claylike material.

Tepco considered building a wall on the mountain side of the plant after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, but abandoned the plan because of the risk that radioactive water flooding the buildings might be leaking into the soil. […]

See also: Japanese professor: Melted fuel has gone through containers and is on concrete foundations sinking into ground below, as far as I can tell — Underground dam was being prepared, but TEPCO resisting

April 30, 2013 - Posted by | Fukushima 2013

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