The ice wall is one way of keeping the massive amount of toxic water stored in the facility. But Japan has floated the idea of dumping it into the Pacific Ocean. Roger Cheng Former Executive ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant said this month that two storage tanks had leaked about four tonnes of coolant solution used to create an ice wall ...

Photograph from Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images 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 ...

Five years after an earthquake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, Japanese authorities say a long-planned "ice wall" around the leaking facility can be turned on.

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 wall only somewhat ...

FUKUSHIMA, Japan-- In the shadow of Fukushima ... goes as planned -- when they flip the switch next year a mile-long "ice wall" of frozen soil will seal in the four damaged reactors and stop ...

Diagram showing the ice wall built around the stricken reactors of Fukushima Daiichi, or Number One, Nuclear Plant, March 8, 2018. Diagram showing the ice wall built around the stricken reactors ...

FILE PHOTO: Workers prepare frozen pipes during operations to construct an underground ice wall at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s (Tepco) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in ...

TOKYO – A government-commissioned group of experts has concluded that a costly underground ice wall is only partially ... water at Japan's destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant, and other measures ...

An engineer discusses radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan, June 8, 2016. (Ko Sasaki / The New York Times) Some call the ice wall a flashy but desperate gambit to tame ...

TOKYO, Jan 25 (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant said this month that two storage tanks had leaked about four tonnes of coolant solution used to create an ...