The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant’s operator on Tuesday started freezing the last section of a 35-billion yen ($320 million) ice wall designed to cut down on vast amounts of contaminated water at the site of the worst atomic accident in a generation. Tokyo Electric…
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant’s operator on Tuesday started freezing the last section of a 35-billion yen ($320 million) ice wall designed to cut down on vast amounts of contaminated water at the site of the worst atomic accident in a generation.
Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) began pumping coolant into the remaining seven meters of its 1.5-kilometer underground wall which encircles four reactors along Japan’s northeast coast.
Underground pipes circulate the coolant and freeze soil around the buildings.
The 30-meter-deep wall is designed to block underground water from nearby mountains from flowing into the shattered complex and then seeping into the Pacific.
It is reportedly expected to take more than two months until the wall is completely frozen.
