Fukushima (22 April 2014) Fukushima Ground Sinking Beneath Reactor? Ice Wall Put On Hold

Top Nuclear Official: "Ground sinking" beneath Fukushima reactor buildings a concern — Gov't experts looking closely at risks from changes to flow of underground water http://bit.ly/1frFMES Fukushima evacuees discuss whether to go back home Residents of a town in Fukushima Prefecture who fled the accident at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March 2011 are considering whether to go back home. Officials of Naraha have begun hosting town meetings to discuss return, now that the government has finished removing radioactive material from living areas. The first meeting was held on Monday in Iwaki city, where 80 percent of the town's residents have evacuated. Tsunami test facility for nuclear plants A Japanese research institute has a new facility that can create artificial tsunami waves to test the safety of nuclear power plants. The new facility at the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry in Abiko City, near Tokyo, features a water pool 20 meters long and 4 meters wide. The waves it generates can travel as fast as 7 meters per second -- the speed of the tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan in March of 2011. It can also create continuous waves as high as 2 meters for 3 minutes and simulate various wave shapes. Researchers will test several types of breakwaters and study the strength of collisions of objects drifting in tsunami. They say these experiments will contribute to improved safety at nuclear power plants. Japanese power companies are learning from the Fukushima Daiichi disaster and stepping up safety measures at their nuclear facilities against possible earthquakes and tsumani. ((MORE LINKS)) *Please support Missingsky http://bit.ly/RMZ2rq