[SIZE="3"]Huge pump airlifted to Fukushima[/SIZE]
News24: Sci-Tech | 2011/04/09
A Putzmeister official in Japan contacted Tokyo Electric Power, which operates the crippled reactors, after watching helicopters and fire trucks struggle to spray water onto the plant. The company managed to reroute a smaller Putzmeister pump to the power plant that had been destined for Vietnam...
...Moving such a large pump required hiring a Russian cargo jet, one of the world's largest...That pump and another picked up at Los Angeles International Airport are scheduled to depart on Saturday. The pumps were bought by the Japanese utility for about $2m each, and the utility is paying for transportation costs...more...
