Nuclear analyst concerned over Fukushima 'ice wall'

Officials at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan have showcased to media crews the underground wall of ice they are building in an attempt to stop radioactive water from leaking from the facility. But as Al Jazeera's technology reporter Tarek Bazley reports, some experts say the project is flawed, and could create more problems than it solves.

[kurtilein]

just interview Arnie Gundersen from fairewinds energy education. he proposes a zeolite trench. basically you dig a trench and fill it with the mineral zeolite. zeolite has micropores and filters radioactive isotopes out of water. water can move through the zeolite, but only very slowly, and the radioactive stuff just stays in the zeolite. that would be easier to do, and does not constantly require power and maintenance, like the ice wall with its cryogenics does.

[anthonyb]

Love your work I’m not even out of high school and I have soulotions talk to me

[joesweeney]

The "expert" looks rather like John Large. The "expertise" of John Large can be seen for what it is in the report he wrote for Plymouth city council in which he consistently and repeatedly referred to "the beta radiation emitted by Plutonium-239".