rickbb
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Geo said:the Japanese are going to spend billions of dollars to build whats called a "frozen earth containment cell" around the whole plant. they will run tubing up to a half mile deep and in a full circle around the effected area and then set up continuous pumps to pump a coolant through the pipes. this will freeze the ground water (and thus the earth) around the plant preventing any more radioactive water from leaking into the ground water. its been done before but not on that scale. the pumps will have to pump continuously for the next several hundred years.
Lets hope those pumps are better designed than the ones that were supposed to keep the reactors cool in the first place.