Little balls of ice line the pipes that go underground and form the ice wall. James Martin/CNET. At Fukushima, my eyes follow the path of the pipes, which stretch around the reactor building.

Wall Of Ice Surrounding Fukushima Will Contain Radioactive Water : The Two-Way Wastewater at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, which suffered major damage to its reactors in the 2011 ...

James Martin/CNET. A technician monitors the ice wall operations from a building at the Fukushima Daiichi facility. Tepco says the wall is working, but a Reuters report in March of 2018 found the ...

Explainer: Wall of ice at Fukushima's crippled nuclear plant. By Elaine Lies and Ju-min Park. January 25, 2022 9:15 AM UTC Updated January 25, 2022 Item 1 of 2 Employees of Tokyo ...

Detailed plans for Fukushima's ice wall haven't yet been unveiled, but Yarmak estimates that it would probably be a little less than a mile in length and extend about 65 feet beneath the surface.

Coping with the vast amounts of ground water flowing into the broken Fukushima nuclear plant — which then becomes radiated and seeps back out — has become such a problem that Japan is building ...

Remember how Japan decided to build that crazy ice wall to contain the Fukushima nuclear plant’s radioactive water leaks? Well, its construction is behind schedule—because its engineers can ...

TOKYO (AP) — The operator of Japan’s destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant switched on a giant refrigeration system on Thursday to create an unprecedented underground ice wall around its damaged ...

TOKYO – A government-commissioned group of experts has concluded that a costly underground ice wall is only partially effective in reducing the ever-growing amount of contaminated water at Japan ...

The 1.4-kilometer-long subterranean ice wall that Japan is proposing to create around the damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima Daiichi may be the biggest such structure yet, but is not completely ...