so the option the government has chosen would be to create an artificial perm ma frost and creating al of ice. >> and you work for the nuclear energy trade group. what is your take on the viability of this? >> well, the first point to make is the governments and the nra, and the industry minister have all made it quite clear that there is no pollution after two and a half years of the ocean adjacent to the plant. so that raises some questions about how necessary this ice wall is. secondly, the figures you quoted earlier are fantastic. they have been in the media, i agree, but they have not been from tepco or the nra. the leakage in that large water treatment plant is present, but it is minor and it has no effect outside of the immediate site area. >> i want to get to professor dewitt, but first ed limon, we're talking about contaminated water that is leaking out. is the number appropriate. >> 300 metric tons a day is believed to be [ inaudible ] but most of that is ground water that is flowing under the plant. there was a leak of about 300 tons last week. >> and why is that significan

perm ma frost is melting an at unprecedented rate, and the arctic ocean is also melting. but the local people up here are finding that there could be potential benefits to a changing climate. beneath the still ice free waters, there are more fish than ever before. a great first catch for peter. green land hag be it are a spearsies they just began to catch in recent years. and now it is helping to build a commercial fishery. >> we went out to test our lines and also to test new fishing grounds, and i'm glad to say that with the effort of everybody, we did catch quite a bit in a very small amount of time. >> reporter: new machines at the fish processing plant prepare the fish for export to each asia. bigger fishing boats mean dozens of jobs in a place where most are unemployed or work for a government. >> it falls very well into a traditional lifestyle, so if people are able to -- to -- to use some -- some skills that they have always had and an ply them to a job, then that's something that will be of more long-term benefit. >> reporter: projects like this newly built small