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April 8, 2011 A Sacramento businessman hopes his company's massive concrete boom pump will help bury Japan's nuclear reactor worries.
Mike Parigini, the 60-year-old founder and owner of Associated Concrete Pumping in Sacramento, has sold his nearly 190,000-pound pump back to its maker — Putzmeister America Inc. of Sturtevant, Wis.
Parigini said the pump will soon be on its way to Japan, likely to initially help cool leaking nuclear reactors with streams of water, then later, encase them under to
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California man's concrete pump headed to Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant | McClatchy
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April 8, 2011 A Sacramento businessman hopes his company's massive concrete boom pump will help bury Japan's nuclear reactor worries.
Mike Parigini, the 60-year-old founder and owner of Associated Concrete Pumping in Sacramento, has sold his nearly 190,000-pound pump back to its maker — Putzmeister America Inc. of Sturtevant, Wis.
Parigini said the pump will soon be on its way to Japan, likely to initially help cool leaking nuclear reactors with streams of water, then later, encase them under to
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