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Miles O’Brien:

This steady stream of contaminated water has created a sorcerer's apprentice-style problem here.

At first, they were generating between 130,000 and 160,000 gallons of radioactive water each and every day. In 2016, they completed a so-called ice wall, a $300 million subterranean perimeter of pipes cold enough to freeze the soil and keep much, but not all of the groundwater at bay. The site now generates tainted water at a daily rate of about 25,000 gallons.

Akira Ono leads the decontamination and decommissioning effort.

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