https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-disaster-nuclear-icewall/tepcos-ice-wall-fails-to-freeze-fukushimas-toxic-water-buildup-idUSKCN1GK0SY
A costly “ice wall” is failing to keep groundwater from seeping
into the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, data from operator
Tokyo Electric Power Co shows, preventing it from removing radioactive
melted fuel at the site seven years after the disaster.
When the ice wall was announced in 2013, Tepco (9501.T) assured
skeptics that it would limit the flow of groundwater into the plant’s
basements, where it mixes with highly radioactive debris from the site’s
reactors, to “nearly nothing.”
However, since the ice wall became fully operational
at the end of August, an average of 141 metric tonnes a day of water
has seeped into the reactor and turbine areas, more than the average of
132 metric tonnes a day during the prior nine months, a Reuters analysis
of the Tepco data showed.
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