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Fukushima, radiation levels too high: aborted military helicopters' missions
Tokyo, Japan - To pour water on reactors, due to safety reasons
Japanese State TV "NHK" reports that too high radiation levels in the Fukushima nuclear plant caused the missions of four military helicopters provided by the Country's Defense to be aborted. The aircraft would have had to throw water on the plant's reactors, which risk nuclear fusion, so to cool them; in particular, would have been stopped the mission of a CH-47 Chinook, that had taken-off this...
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1127066
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency