Ice age given green light: Fukushima activates barrier for radioactive water

[snoop1130]

Ice age given green light: Fukushima activates barrier for radioactive water
Euronews



JAPAN -- An underground ice wall has been activated around Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactors, five years after a deadly earthquake and tsunami wreaked nationwide havoc.

The aim of the barrier is to contain spills of radioactive water leaking into the Pacific Ocean.

According to Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the plant’s operator, a cooling liquid will be passed through underground pipes to freeze the ground and create a wall around the four reactors damaged in the 2011 disaster.

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Agency (NRA) finally gave the green light after more than two years analysing the safety of the 270 million-euro project.

The first phase of the “wall” flanks the west of the plant and is expected to take a month and a half to become operational.

Stage two will cover the north and south sides of the plant, protecting around 95 percent of the total perimetre.

Its launch comes in the same week the Fukushima District Public Prosecutor’s Office announced it will not indict TEPCO for breaking an environmental law by allowing contaminated water to be discharged into the sea.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-03-31

[JetsetBkk]

I wonder how many views this would have gotten if the title had not included "Ice age"?

[Chicog]

If it's as effective as the last measure they claimed would solve the problem, the supply of self-cooking prawns won't dry up in the immediate future.

[arjunadawn]

If it's as effective as the last measure they claimed would solve the problem, the supply of self-cooking prawns won't dry up in the immediate future.

Yea, this debacle is among recent history's most under reported disasters. This disaster was like an Irwin Allen movie but the clean up and afterbirth has proven equally horrifying. I join those who know damn well that all this radioactive crap in the waters and ground will sicken for years.

[expat_4_life]

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[SOTIRIOS]

................5 years after..........

...............how pathetic..........

[up2u2]

A perfect example when critical infrastructure is handed over to private corporations. Profit becomes more important than safety. Gross negligence caused by greed. Of course the same old story, the profits were corporatised and the clean up losses and cost socialised. If a Nation ever sells critical assets off to the private sector you have to be looking over their shoulder every second with a regulatory authority with a giant big stick.

I think a good idea would be any privatised essential service the board of directors should be dragged out each year and publicly flogged just to make sure they remember who is in charge.

[Jonmarleesco]

'Its launch comes in the same week the Fukushima District Public Prosecutor’s Office announced it will not indict TEPCO for breaking an environmental law by allowing contaminated water to be discharged into the sea.' That decision has a familiar three-syllable ring to it.