To plug nuclear leaks, Japan turns to ice

Frozen wall underground aims to halt flow of water below damaged reactors

BY MARTIN FACKLER
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The part above ground doesn’t look like much, a few silver pipes in a straight line, dwarfed by the far more massive, scarred reactor buildings nearby. More impressive is what is taking shape unseen beneath: an underground wall of frozen dirt 100 feet...

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