Japan military likely to help pump water at stricken plant

Japan is looking to use its military to help pump water to the No.3 reactor and into a spent-fuel pool at the No.4 reactor of a quake-stricken nuclear plant, the nation's nuclear safety agency said on Wednesday.
It also said it was unsure if Japan's Self-Defense Forces would make another attempt to drop water by helicopter on the No. 3 reactor. An earlier attempt was aborted on Wednesday.
It also said radiation levels at a monitoring post outside the Fukushima Daiichi plant had spiked at 0330 GMT to 10,850 microsieverts per hour, but fell back later to 2,331 microsieverts an hour later.