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  • Pump to be shipped from Santa Fe Springs to aid Japan plant

    04/07/2011 11:25:46 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 6 replies
    kabc ^ | Wednesday, April 06, 2011
    An international company with strong local connections is helping cool Japan's damaged nuclear reactors. The company, Putzmeister, already has one massive concrete pump working in Japan, The first of two will be flown from California to Japan on Friday to help prevent a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. The boom pump is designed for pouring concrete, but is headed there to pour tons of water an hour on the damaged nuclear reactors. It's one of the largest pumps of its type in the world, a 70-foot-long massive piece of wheeled machinery that weighs 176,000 pounds. It will be...