Some have expressed doubts about the ice wall idea from its first suggestion. Mainly, because they had already played around with this technology at reactor 1, with disastrous results. In fact, the outcome of experimental ice wall number 1 is the reason why water has been backing up at the site, overflowing wells, and contributing to subsidence issues. So now, the solution is… let’s build an even bigger ice wall? Well, for whatever reason, TEPCO has decided to now fight water with ice for real, and do it quickly. What we are about to witness is the most enormous and expensive nuclear experiment that’s ever been attempted, creating the largest man-made section of frozen earth on the planet, that has to be maintained for possibly hundreds of years, with no idea whether or not it will work. And no idea whether it will further contribute to the backing-up, subsidence, and groundwater issues, that already occurred from failed ice wall experiment number 1, though I’m guessing it will. And all this is happening concurrently with the never-before-attempted-damaged-spent-fuel-removal-project going on at reactor number 4, but that’s a whole other story.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 03:23:57 +0000
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