How to Build an Ice Wall Around a Leaking Nuclear Reactor

The Fukushima plant is not even the largest ice wall ever attempted. Sopko, Andersland's last PhD student at Michigan State, told me that in the 1990s, he'd designed and installed a 3.5 kilometer perimeter wall that required 1,950 pipes, 159,000 meters of drilling, and eight 1,500 horsepower compressors for the Aquarius gold mine in Ontario, Canada. Unfortunately, while the pipes were being installed, the price of gold plummeted and the system was never switched on.
[link to www.theatlantic.com]

BTW, the freezing technique is old...

In 1962, the Atomic Energy Commission disposed of over 6,800 kilograms of radioactively contaminated material at the Project Chariot site in northwestern Alaska. The burial mound situated in naturally occurring frozen soil, permafrost, at the site was deemed to be the perfect containment medium (Vandegraft 1993). Indeed, upon remediation in 1995, it was found that virtually no transport of radionuclides into the permafrost had occurred (Dasher 1993). Thermosyphons were first commercially used in 1960 to maintain permafrost and have been used since 1990 to either create or maintain permafrost barriers.
[link to www.containment.fsu.edu]

Maybe a new "Project Iceworm"... lol... Google it...
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