By David Piper
Published August 09, 2013
FoxNews.com

More than two years after a tsunami-induced meltdown, Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is still spewing contaminated water into a sea that once teemed with fishing boats but now seems eerily deserted, and the latest hope for stopping the poisonous flow is an underground ice barrier that's never been tried.

Officials recently acknowledged that an estimated 300 tons of radiation contaminated water, which is continuously pumped into the reactors in an effort to cool them, pour into the sea every day. The plant has been leaking radiation ever since it was crippled by a massive tsunami caused by an offshore earthquake in March, 2011, that knocked out its cooling systems and led three of the four reactors to melt down. Since then, the plant's oprators, Tokyo Electric Power, or TEPCO, has been unable to repair the walls and floor of the underground enclosures in which the reactors are situated because it’s still too dangerous for a human to work there for extended periods.

TEPCO has built an underground barrier to try to contain contaminated groundwater from reaching the sea. But despite the barrier, water can still go around or over it when heavy rains cause water to wash down from the hill where the damaged plant looms. Much of the water used is recycled through huge reservoirs dug underground but some of the water still seeps into the land, and then the sea nearby.

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The latest idea for stopping the flow of contaminated water into the sea is to freeze the soil around the reactor buildings to create a mile-long barrier to stop more groundwater from becoming radioactive, a plan that could cost upwards of $400 million.

“There is no precedent in the world to create a water-shielding wall with frozen soil on such a large scale. To build that, I think the state has to move a step further to support its realization,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters.

While the politicians ponder whether the underground ice wall can stop the radiation leak, the grim reality is that the land and seas around the Fukushima plant continue to be polluted more.

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Radiation has been leaking into the ocean for the past 2 years. The US west coast/Hawaii will certainly be having problems all along the coast line. Also, fish has been tainted. CBS reported 7 months after the earthquake that Tuna was already found contaminated in US food supply. But no one is talking about the severe contamination and harm to US residents/surfers/beach goers or our food supply. Why?!

Yeah, it did. Which makes this seem all the worse. That's the best last idea they could come up with?! This is bad. I read last night the suggestion that perhaps this is the "Wormwood" (a poison) spoken of in the Bible as to end times....and the water being poisoned. Gives one pause, it does.