The world’s largest concrete pump at the Savannah River Plant going to Japan
Submitted by: John Warner on Apr 01, 2011 at 3:32 am
Tagged with: Nuclear
Source: Savannah River Site
The world’s largest concrete pump, deployed at the construction site of the U.S. government’s $4.86 billion mixed oxide fuel plant at Savannah River Site, is being moved to Japan in a series of emergency measures to help stabilize the Fukushima reactors.
“The bottom line is, the Japanese need this particular unit worse than we do, so we’re giving it up,” said Jerry Ashmore, whose company, Augusta-based Ashmore Concrete Contractors, Inc., is the concrete supplier for the MOX facility.
The 190,000-pound pump, made by Germany-based Putzmeister has a 70-meter boom and can be controlled remotely, making it suitable for use in the unpredictable and highly radioactive environment of the doomed nuclear reactors in Japan, he said.
See the rest at the Augusta Chronicle.
| Organizations | Savannah River Site |
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| Source | Savannah River Site |
| Submitter | John Warner |
| Tags | Nuclear |