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Originally Posted by termogard
Not a magic but a rude reality. "Smoking" reactors could become not only japanese but international problem and very soon.They need to step after "national pride" and ask help of China, ROK, Russia. Sure, all those countries could provide enough concrete, cement and boric acid in a relatively short period of time. As well as a large amout of heavy helicopters with skilled pilots.
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The question is of how to actually get the stuff there.
Japan has already asked for help from pretty much everywhere. They went to the US and Russia pretty much first thing, according to all the news here. The word out now is that the US doesn`t want any of their pilots getting close to it.
Right now it`s an issue of getting water on the exposed spent fuel rods. They can`t just pop a cap on it and make it go away - there are steps they have to take.
You can`t just fly a plane over and dump a load of concrete on the whole thing.