More experts challenge Tepco's 'Great Icewall' for Fukushima No. 1
Source: Associated Press
Experts on Friday heaped further criticism on a plan to build a costly underground frozen wall around the radiation-tainted Fukushima No. 1 power plant, a development that could delay the start of the experimental project.
The experts and nuclear regulatory officials said at a meeting in Tokyo on Friday that they weren’t convinced the project can resolve the serious problems involving contaminated water at the plant, which suffered multiple meltdowns following the 2011 megaquake and tsunami.
The frozen wall is a ¥32 billion state-funded project to surround the plant’s four crippled reactors and turbine buildings with an ice wall to block groundwater from flowing into their basements and mixing with highly radioactive water leaking from the cores.
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International experts have raised similar concerns.
Dale Klein, a former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman who now heads a supervisory panel for Tepco, on Thursday said he was not convinced the frozen wall is the best option and worth the high cost. He also suggested that the government and Tepco review the plan to balance risk and benefit and see whether they should spend the money elsewhere.
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Read more: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/04/national/experts-challenge-tepcos-great-icewall-fukushima-1/
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if that had been done properly at the beginning these monsters would never have been built... notice how with wind farms and solar plants there's always mention of environmental risks ....vested interests again being involved....i've read somewhere it takes almost half the working life of a nuclear plant to actually replace the power used to make the fucker!!! makes sense to whom??? 
...as well as pleasant to have around. As advertised.
