NRA Approves Full Water-Shielding Wall at Fukushima Daiichi NPPs
(WorldNews Environment)

21 August, 2017 Noriyuki Ishii On August 15, the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) of Japan officially approved freezing the remaining approximately seven meters of wall on the west side of the buildings of Units 1-4 of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants, owned by the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO). This constitutes part of the `frozen-soil shielding wall` project, a major effort to deal with contaminated water by freezing more than 1,500 meters of...