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Freezing out Fukushima's radioactive water
- noir_lord 12y agoIt's an interesting approach, freezing the ground has been used for quite a long time in large projects(Léon Chagnaud did in the early 1900's to build tunnels through the water logged banks of the Seine (if you want an interesting story about large scale civil engineering that one has it all, the stations where built on the surface then "sunk" to position and effectively where designed to be water tight while the tunnels where built by sinking caissons in and then connecting them, incredible work))
- yason 12y agoSo what would the consequences be of letting the core just melt and eat its way downwards? It's not as if the environment around the plant and seawaters hadn't had a hefty portion of radioactive waste already and the structural damage hadn't happened. A quick look at Wikipedia tells me that in most nuclear accidents the worst had already happened before the actual meltdown.
- serf 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_meltdown#China_Syndrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_meltdown#China_Syndrome not that it really answers your question. I don't know what the real consequences would be.
- ksec 12y agoI thought they were dumping Radio active contaminated water every day into the pacific ocean. And yet no other country actually care about it.