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Saturday, April 30, 2016

Fukushima's Ice wall - Rocket Technology or just a Damp Squib

Fukushima's Ice wall - Rocket Technology or just a Damp Squib

With Yuichi Okamura, TEPCO's Ice Wall Chief Architect revealing it'll take a further 8 months to get to temperature, won't be watertight, and potentially be a 9 year battle to address Fukushima's water ingress (and contamination bleed out) problems, is it time Japan to rethink its containment solutions for the devastated fukushima daiichi site?

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/ap-interview-fukushima-plants-ice-wall-not-watertight-092447794.html

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/dba4eedb33804c3f81c6c24425f5b77b/containing-fukushimas-radioactive-water-may-be-9-year-fight

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