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Japan’s ‘Hail Mary’ at Fukushima Daiichi: An Underground Ice Wall
N Y Times ^ | 29 Aug 2016 | MARTIN FACKLER

Posted on 08/30/2016 7:42:35 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

More impressive is what is taking shape unseen beneath: an underground wall of frozen dirt 100 feet deep and nearly a mile in length, intended to solve a runaway water crisis threatening the devastated Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan...

Built by the central government at a cost of 35 billion yen, or some $320 million, the ice wall is intended to seal off the reactor buildings within a vast, rectangular-shaped barrier of man-made permafrost...

The company says that it has built more than 1,000 tanks that now hold more than 800,000 tons of radioactive water, enough to fill more than 320 Olympic-size swimming pools...

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: japantsunami
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With all the spending to recover from the 2011 tsunami, Japan should have the hottest economy on earth?
1 posted on 08/30/2016 7:42:36 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Indeed. Print $100 Trillion Yen, bought directly by the Central Bank with ex-nihilo money, to spend on ice walls everywhere

The economy will boom!


2 posted on 08/30/2016 7:48:13 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Nike power is great. Until it’s not


3 posted on 08/30/2016 7:51:35 AM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

I agree completely. I wear Adidas.

CC


4 posted on 08/30/2016 7:58:26 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: stanne

If the shoe fits


5 posted on 08/30/2016 7:59:04 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: stanne

http://store.nike.com/us/en_us/pd/power-epic-lux-womens-running-tights/pid-10201707/pgid-11450161


6 posted on 08/30/2016 7:59:22 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: DUMBGRUNT

They didn’t learn from their past and now they won’t have Godzilla to save them.


7 posted on 08/30/2016 8:09:01 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Phooey. Some day I’ll knock out the spell check


8 posted on 08/30/2016 8:28:48 AM PDT by stanne
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Whoever it was, that sold the Nipponese government the idea of having a nuclear power plant so close to the shore, must have been the same minds behind the Shoreham plant fiasco on Long Island, NY, and the San Onofre plant brouhaha in California.


9 posted on 08/30/2016 8:30:48 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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"During the accident, the uranium fuel grew so hot that some of it is believed to have melted through the reactor’s steel floors and possibly into the basement"

They don't know where the fuel rods are. That is not a good thing.

10 posted on 08/30/2016 8:33:06 AM PDT by Smittie (Just like an alien, I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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To: PGR88

The multiplier effect will crank up their economy in no time!

That said, IIRC earlier stimulus programs, have not worked so well for Japan?


11 posted on 08/30/2016 8:42:25 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: Smittie

Similar to Chernobyl. They use the ice wall there also. (or did anyway).

If you EVER want to read something scary, read the Wikipedia article on the Chernobyl event.

Lots of Brave people died there.


12 posted on 08/30/2016 8:45:48 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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They don't know where the fuel rods are. That is not a good thing.

I looked on my globe to see where the "China Syndrome" would come out from Japan and it appears to be the South Atlantic Ocean pretty far off the east coast of South America. I guess that's where they need to look.

13 posted on 08/30/2016 8:46:02 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: DUMBGRUNT

If they had extra batteries, this would have been one of the greatest success stories of nuclear energy.


14 posted on 08/30/2016 8:48:03 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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To: Terry L Smith

Cooling water!

For the steam turbines to work, the condenser needs to cooled.

Having a nice cool ocean nearby cuts costs.


15 posted on 08/30/2016 8:48:11 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: Menehune56

What about “The Pepsi Syndrome”....

Dr. Edna Casey: It means, Mrs. Carter, your husband, President Carter, has become ....The Amazing Colossal President.

Rosalyn Carter: Well how big is he?

Dr. Edna Casey: Well Mrs. Carter, it’s difficult to comprehend just how big he is but to give you some idea, we’ve asked comedian Rodney Dangerfield to come along today to help explain it to you. Rodney?

Rodney Dangerfield: How do you do, how are you?

Ross Denton: Rodney, can you please tell us, how big is the president?

Rodney Dangerfield: Oh, he’s a big guy, I’ll tell you that, he’s a big guy. I tell you he’s so big, I saw him sitting in the George Washington bridge dangling his feet in the water! He’s a big guy!

Rosalyn Carter: Oh my God! Jimmy! Oh God!

Rodney Dangerfield: Oh, he’s big, I’ll tell you that, boy. He’s so big that when two girls make love to him at the same time, they never meet each other! He’s a big guy, I’ll tell you!


16 posted on 08/30/2016 8:48:55 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: DUMBGRUNT
That said, IIRC earlier stimulus programs, have not worked so well for Japan?

Because over the last 25 years, they were pouring cement for their Keynesian stimulus. Now, the geniuses and central planners have discovered they should be pouring ICE WALLS instead. Soooo much better than concrete. Brilliant!

17 posted on 08/30/2016 8:50:57 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: DUMBGRUNT

dear dumb,

I am aware of the statement made comical by Ed Asner:
“You can never put too much water in a reactor.”

I can see the public screams of the pipelines further back off the shore, but for a nation that made a separate reverent word for ‘tidal wave’, should have known better.


18 posted on 08/30/2016 9:04:40 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Mr. K

Extra batteries, or an above-high-water air intake for their backup generators.


19 posted on 08/30/2016 9:08:32 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Conan the Librarian
"Lots of Brave people died there."

That's true and they went in knowing it was a death sentence.

20 posted on 08/30/2016 9:21:10 AM PDT by Smittie (Just like an alien, I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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