TEMPO.CO, Fukushima - Japan plans to construct an underground ice wall around the leaked and decommissioned Fukushima nuclear power plant. The ice wall is specifically designed to stop the build-up of radioactive water.
The construction of the ice wall, designed by Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), was proposed last year. The project will commence only after it gained an approval from Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority.
CNET reported that the 1.5 kilometers frozen wall will be built by pumping a refrigerant liquid through underground pipes. The ice wall will stop groundwater originating from nearby landscape from mixing with polluted water.
The Fukushima nuclear power plant leaked after being hit by a powerful wave of tsunami in 2011. Its leaking radiation forced 300,000 people to evacuate from the area around the facility and forced to Japanese government to establish a 20 kilometer "exclusion zone".
RINDU P HESTYA | CNET