8/19/2013 Can an Ice Wall Stop Radioactive Water Leaks from Fukushima?

Source: National Geographic
Date: 8/19/2013
by: Patrick J. Kiger

A diagram shows how ground-freezing technology could be used to keep radioactive water from leaking at Fukushima.

Diagram by Reuters

As contaminated groundwater continues to flow from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant into the Pacific Ocean, the Japanese government has come up with a last-ditch solution that sounds like something out of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones: An underground wall of ice that would stop the radioactive leakage.
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Editor's Note: See also the following articles about the Fukushima Daiichi ice wall.

8/30/2013	MIT Technology Review	How the Fukushima Ice Barrier Will Block Radioactive Groundwater
8/29/2013	WSJ: Japan Realtime	Fukushima Watch: Previous Experiments With Ice Walls