Cement Pumps On Way To Japan

A Russian antonov-225 cargo plane, one of the world's largest aircrafts, was parked for a few hours at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport Sunday carrying the world's largest concrete pump to Japan to help seal and then encase the crippled nuclear

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Story Created: Apr 10, 2011 at 11:17 PM AKDT

Story Updated: Apr 10, 2011 at 11:17 PM AKDT

Anchorage has had a hand in helping to seal the leaking Japanese reactors in Fukushima. A Russian antonov-225 cargo plane, one of the world's largest aircrafts, was parked for a few hours at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport Sunday

The plane is carrying the world's largest concrete pump to Japan to help seal and then encase the crippled nuclear reactors - ending radiation leaks there. The plane left California on Saturday and is headed to Russia before finally landing in Japan.

The freight bill alone is over one million dollars, however the pump will definitely be needed. In Chernobyl over a million cubic yards of cement were needed to seal off one reactor, four are damaged in Japan. When the work is over, because of radioactive contamination, the pumps themselves will be buried and sealed away forever

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Jason said on Tuesday, Apr 26 at 2:36 PM

The plane in the video is not the An-225, it is the smaller An-124.

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