If the ongoing triple-threat disaster in Japan were a movie monster, now would be when the international authorities deployed a giant super gun to stop the creature. In this case, it is hoped that the giant Putzmeister super pump will be able to tame the situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant.

Lifting off for transport from America two days ago carried by the massive Russian Antonov An-124 cargo plane, the 190,000-pound pump intended to eventually encase the reactors in concrete uses a boom that extends 225 feet and can be operated remotely from up to two miles away. With a name only an old school vaudevillian could love, even if the mechanism is successful in its task it will then be dismantled and disposed of due to high radiation contamination.

Via Xinhua & AP