Japan Uses Helicopters, Water Cannons, Troops to Quell Meltdown

Business Week Thursday 17th March, 2011

March 17 (Bloomberg) -- Japan’s nuclear crisis escalated as helicopters and riot-control water cannons were enlisted in a losing battle to contain radioactive pollution spreading from the nuclear industry’s worst catastrophe since Chernobyl.

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