Sound like a boondoggle to me On Monday, September 16, 2013, Jed Rothwell wrote:
> There was another documentary on NHK, "Close-up Gendai" #3400 > > http://www.nhk.or.jp/gendai/kiroku/detail02_3400_all.html > > Here is something I did not grasp before. The frozen wall has to go all > around the reactor buildings, including the sea side, in order to hold the > groundwater in. If the water table drops too far, the water will leak out > of the reactor buildings into the ocean. > > The ice wall should stop most groundwater coming downhill into the reactor > area. That water will be taken from well into the "bypass" pipes and pumped > into the ocean. If they did only that, it would dry out the land under the > reactors, the water table would fall, and the water from the reactor > basements would seep out into the ocean. > > This is shown in the video images here below the fishtank simulation of > the frozen wall. Images 6, 7 and 8 here: > > http://www.nhk.or.jp/gendai/kiroku/detail02_3400_3.html > > - Jed > >
