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Helicopters dump water to cool reactor

Updated: 2011-03-17 14:12

(Agencies)

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Helicopters dump water to cool reactor
A Japan Air Self-Defense Force CH-47 Chinook helicopter collects water from the ocean to drop on the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Fukushima March 17, 2011. Operators of the quake-crippled nuclear plant in Japan again deployed military helicopters on Thursday in a bid to douse overheating reactors, as US officials warned of the rising risk of a catastrophic radiation leak from spent fuel rods. [Photo/Agencies]

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