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A $320 Million Ice Wall Still Can’t Contain Radioactive Water Near Fukushima by  Chelsea Gohd March 8, 2018   Future Society In Brief; Seven years after the nuclear disaster, Fukushima still has a big contamination problem. In 2017, an ice wall was built in an effort to prevent water from entering the nuclear plant. Unfortunately, this wall was not as effective as many had hoped. Last year, Japan’s central government completed a 35 billion yen (approximately $320 million)  underground ice wall . Over 38 meters (100 feet) deep and nearly 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) long, the structure is meant to stop groundwater from mixing with the radioactive water leaking from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which was severely damaged in 2011 by an earthquake and tsunami. While an idea seemingly plucked from a comic book, this wall of human-made permafrost was criticized for being  too complex and potentially ineffective . Negative suspicions were confirmed when an investiga...

170 MILLION IN U.S. DRINK RADIOACTIVE TAP WATER. TRUMP NOMINEE FAKED DATA TO HIDE CANCER RISK THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 By Bill Walker, Editor in Chief, and Wicitra Mahotama, Environmental Analyst Drinking water for more than 170 million Americans contains radioactive elements at levels that may increase the risk of cancer, according to an EWG analysis of 2010 to 2015 test results from public water systems nationwide. Radiation in tap water is a serious health threat, especially during pregnancy. But the Environmental Protection Agency’s legal limits for several types of radioactive elements in tap water are badly outdated. And President Trump’s nominee to be the White House environment czar rejects the need for water systems to comply even with those outdated and inadequate standards. The nominee, Kathleen Hartnett White, former chair of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, admitted in a 2011 interview that the commission falsified data to make it appear that communi...

FUKUSHIMA’S OTHER BIG PROBLEM: A MILLION TONS OF RADIOACTIVE WATER VINCE BEISER  SCIENCE 04.27.18 07:00 AM Irradiated tanks of water at Fukushima Daiichi plant.   SPENCER LOWELL THE TSUNAMI-DRIVEN SEAWATER  that engulfed Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has long since receded. But plant officials are still struggling to cope with another dangerous flood: the enormous amounts of radioactive water the crippled facility generates each day. More than 1 million tons of radiation-laced water is already being kept on-site in an ever-expanding forest of hundreds of hulking steel tanks—and so far, there’s no plan to deal with them. The earthquake and tsunami that hammered Fukushima on March 11, 2011  triggered meltdowns in three of its six reactors . That left messes of intensely radioactive fuel somewhere loose in the reactor buildings—though  no one knows exactly where . What is known, however, is that every day, as much 150 tons of groundwater percolates into ...