fukushima
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Japan To Start Building Giant Ice Wall At Fukushima
Remember that time Japan had the crazy idea to build a giant ice wall to contain the plant’s radioactive water leaks? Well, it got funded and now it’s about to be built. Really.
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Brave People Are Building Futuristic Farms On Japan’s Radioactive Soil
What does radioactive salad taste like? How about rice sprinkled with nuclear fallout? Well, if you’re truly curious, consider taking your next vacation in Fukushima, where some intrepid farmers have begun the daunting task of farming the region’s tainted soil.
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Japan’s Billion-Dollar Plan To Store Its Contaminated Fukushima Dirt15
As the immediate aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster has passed, Japan is faced with another conundrum: Where to store thousands of tons of radioactive soil that have been harvested from around the region. This week, officials unveiled a $US970 million plan to build a massive storage facility to house the stuff.
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Spacey Fukushima Worker Pushes Wrong Button, Almost Causes Meltdown
It’s another week and another chance for TEPCO to embarrass itself at the beleaguered Fukushima power plant. Sometime on Monday morning, the cooling pump for the reactors shut down suddenly. It must’ve been some mechanical failure or some freak accident, right? Nah. Some worker just pushed the off button by mistake, according to the Nuclear…