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Ice wall to prevent migration of radioactive ground water at Fukushima Nuclear Facility
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Geocomp to Provide Engineering Services for Fukushima Ice Wall

July 27, 2015 rockman Comments Off on Geocomp to Provide Engineering Services for Fukushima Ice Wall

After the 2011 Fukushima earthquake, the reactors at TEPCO’s nuclear facility began leaking radioactive groundwater. The plan to contain the contamination is to use ground freezing to construct an "ice wall" to cutoff the flow. […]

A tsunami flowing into the city of Mikayo after the 9.0 magnitude Fukushima earthquake March 11, 2011 (JIJI PRESS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
Geologic Hazards

Underwater landslide may have doubled 2011 Japanese tsunami

September 30, 2014 rockman Comments Off on Underwater landslide may have doubled 2011 Japanese tsunami

A seismologist at the University of Tokyo believes that the monstrous tsunami that was responsible for so much damage and loss of life during the 2011 Fukushima earthquake may have been a result of a […]

A worker walking near water tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan.
Failures

Ground Freezing proposed to stop radioactive groundwater at Fukushima Nuclear Plant

August 9, 2013 rockman Comments Off on Ground Freezing proposed to stop radioactive groundwater at Fukushima Nuclear Plant

New leaks into the groundwater have been detected at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan that experienced a triple meltdown in 2011 after an earthquake and Tsunami. The plant’s operator, Tepco, recently admitted […]

Nuclear Reactors in the US overlaid on USGS Probability of Strong Shaking Map
Geologic Hazards

Regulators aware for years of understated seismic risks to nuclear plants

March 30, 2011 rockman Comments Off on Regulators aware for years of understated seismic risks to nuclear plants

With the events in Japan on everyone’s mind, it’s of course to be expected that seismic safety at nuclear power plants in the U.S. becomes a hot topic. This article discusses how the Nuclear Regulatory […]

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