New York Times
Japan’s ‘Hail Mary’ at Fukushima Daiichi: An Underground Ice Wall
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More impressive is what is taking shape unseen beneath: an underground wall of frozen dirt 100 feet deep and nearly a mile in length, intended to solve a runaway water crisis threatening the devastated Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan... Built by the central government at a cost of 35 billion yen, or some $320 million, the ice wall is intended to seal off the reactor buildings within a vast, rectangular-shaped barrier of man-made permafrost... The company says that it has built more than 1,000 tanks that now hold more than 800,000 tons of radioactive water, enough to fill... [snip]
High School reverses American flag ban at football stadium
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