FUKUSHIMA, Japan-- In the shadow of Fukushima Daiichi ... as planned -- when they flip the switch next year a mile-long "ice wall" of frozen soil will seal in the four damaged reactors and stop ...

TOKYO-- The operator of Japan's destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant switched on a giant refrigeration system on Thursday to create an unprecedented underground ice wall around its damaged reactors.

In an effort to protect local water, the Japanese government announced a plan Tuesday to spend 32 billion yen (approximately US$320 million) on an underground "ice wall" to prevent contaminated ...

The wall is the latest attempt to try to keep radioactive water from leaking out of the plant. Earlier this week, workers in Japan began construction of an underground ice wall around the melted ...

Japanese officials are still battling radioactive ... water from leaking into the Pacific Ocean is a $470 million ice wall. How do you build an ice wall and how does it work?

TOKYO, Jan 25 (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant said this month that two storage tanks had leaked about four tonnes of coolant solution used to create an ...

the Japanese government has come up with a last-ditch solution that sounds like something out of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones: An underground wall of ice that would stop the radioactive ...

Five years after an earthquake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, Japanese authorities say a long-planned "ice wall" around the leaking facility can be turned on.

After the devastating 2011 tsunami, Japan took an extraordinary step to protect its people by constructing a massive 400-kilometer concrete wall along its northeastern coastline. Known as the “Great ...

It will take until March 2015 to build, cost $320 million and use enough power each day to run 3300 Japanese households. Yet the country’s government this week decided a wall of ice is ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant said this month that two storage tanks had leaked about four tonnes of coolant solution used to create an ice wall ...