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Apr 6, 2015
U.S. Sailors Sick From Fukushima Radiation File New Suit Against Tokyo Electric Power
Amazing how the radiation and damage from Fukushima just continues to spread moment-by-moment, day-by-day...
Citing
a wide range of ailments from leukemia to blindness to birth defects,
79 American veterans of 2011’s earthquake/tsunami relief Operation
Tomadachi (“Friendship”) have filed a new $1 billion class action lawsuit against Tokyo Electric Power.
The suit includes an infant born with a genetic condition to a sailor
who served on the USS Ronald Reagan as radiation poured over it during
the Fukushima melt-downs,
and an American teenager living near the stricken site. It has also
been left open for “up to 70,000 U.S. citizens [who were] potentially
affected by the radiation and will be able to join the class action
suit.” Now
docked in San Diego, the USS Reagan’s on-going safety has become a
political hot potato. The $4.3 billion carrier is at the core of the
U.S. Naval presence in the Pacific. Critics say it’s too radioactive to
operate or to scrap, and that it should be sunk, as were a number of
U.S. ships contaminated by atmospheric Bomb tests in the South Pacific.
The re-filing comes as Tepco admits that it has underestimated certain radiation readings by a factor of five. And as eight more thyroid cancers have surfaced among children in the downwind region. Two new earthquakes have also struck near the Fukushima site.
The amended action was filed in federal court in San Diego on Feb. 6,
which would have been Reagan’s 103rd birthday. It says Tepco failed to
disclose that the $4.3 billion nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was
being heavily dosed from three melt-downs and four explosions at the
Fukushima site. The Reagan was as close as a mile offshore as the
stricken reactors poured deadly clouds of radiation into the air and
ocean beginning the day after the earthquake and tsunami. It also sailed
through nuclear plumes for more than five hours while about 100 miles
offshore. The USS Reagan (CVN-76) is 1,092 feet long and was
commissioned on July 12, 2003. The flight deck covers 4.5 acres, carries
5,500 sailors and more than 80 aircraft.
Reagan crew members reported that in the middle of a snowstorm, a cloud of warm air enveloped them with a “metallic taste.” The reports parallel
those from airmen who dropped the Bomb on Hiroshima, and from central
Pennsylvanians downwind from Three Mile Island. Crew members drank and
bathed in desalinated sea water that was heavily irradiated from
Fukushima’s fallout.
As a group, the sailors comprise an especially young, healthy
cross-section of people. Some also served on the amphibious assault ship
Essex, missile cruiser Cowpens and several others.
Read the rest of this article at - http://ecowatch.com/2014/02/09/u-s-sailors-fukushima-radiation/