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Title: USS Ronald Reagan sailors report cancers after Fukushima rescue mission
Source:
Aljazeera America
URL Source: http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/ ... terfukushimarescuemission.html
Published: Dec 16, 2013
Author: The Stream Team
Post Date: 2013-12-16 20:23:26 by X-15
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Views: 358
Comments: 11
Fifty-one crew members of the USS Ronald Reagan say they are suffering from a variety of cancers as a direct result of their involvement in Operation Tomodachi, a U.S. rescue mission in Fukushima after the nuclear disaster in March 2011. The affected sailors are suing Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), alleging that the utility mishandled the crisis and did not adequately warn the crew of the risk of participating in the earthquake relief efforts. Crew members, many of whom are in their 20s, have been diagnosed with conditions including thyroid cancer, testicular cancer and leukemia. The Department of Defense says the Navy took "proactive measures" in order to "mitigate the levels of Fukushima-related contamination on U.S. Navy ships and aircraft” and that crew members were not exposed to dangerous radiation levels. Charles Bonner, attorney for the sailors, says the radiation the USS Ronald Reagan crew was exposed to extended beyond the tasks of Operation Tomodachi. Deployed ships desalinate their own water, so crew members were unknowingly drinking, cooking with, and bathing in contaminated water due to the ship's close proximity to the disaster site, according to Bonner. The USS Reagan was ultimately informed of the contamination after a month of living approximately 10 miles offshore from the affected region. The number of plaintiffs in the case could grow significantly as 150 additional crew members are currently being medically screened to join. The sailors are seeking $40 million each in punitive damages as well as a $1 billion fund for future medical expenses for members of the USS Reagan.
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#1. To: All (#0)
www.huffingtonpost.com/ro...poon/a-lasting-legacy-of- the_b_2887464.html On the quarter mile long deck there was another alarming note. "I had a digital watch," said quartermaster Jaime Plym, "and it suddenly stopped working. Somebody made a crack that radiation would do that. There were five or six of us on deck and everyone looked at their watches -- and all the digital watches had stopped. There was one that was real expensive, and it wasn't working either. "We were laughing at first. But then that petered out and we just sort of looked at each other because it wasn't funny anymore." 
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-Alex Kurtagic
#2. To: X-15 (#1)
I just started taking Nascent Iodine to reverse the effects of radiation poisoning. They used to add Iodine to baked goods years ago, but replaced it with Bromine, which has no food value whatsoever. ;) Radiation.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#3. To: X-15 (#0)
Good luck but I doubt TEPCO and its insurers will pony up that kind of $. TEPCO's share price has nose dived in value from 2,000 yen to 500 yen today. The affected sailors are suing Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), alleging that the utility mishandled the crisis and did not adequately warn the crew of the risk of participating in the earthquake relief efforts...The sailors are seeking $40 million each in punitive damages as well as a $1 billion fund for future medical expenses for members of the USS Reagan.
#4. To: scrapper2 (#3)
Tepco and Japan are effectively bankrupted. Not to mention a morturary.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
#5. To: tom007 (#4)
tom!!!! you live!!!! ;)
To question is to value the ideal of truth more highly than the loyalties to nation, religion, race, or ideology.
#6. To: christine (#5) (Edited)
Been a wild ride lately. Sold the store Feb 12, 2013(for nearly all cash out!!!!!), went to the FL keys for 2013 winter, camped for months, just got back from the Sea of Cortez (with an ice chest full of live oysters) to Lake Charles, LA, for the hollidays then Jan 5 or so heading to the south pacific coast of Mexico(destination Hutulco) for the winter 2014, coming back to Colorado Springs to sell the house and being free of business, property, legal obligations, entanglements and posessions, going on open ended travels to anywhere we feel like is interesting. And warm in the winter. Was amazing how difficult and expensive it has been to un entangle ourselves from the system, and we are still having to hang around till Sue can complete the 2013 W-2's and taxes to escape the chains of it all.
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
#7. To: tom007 (#6)
Good to see you Tom... Retirement is overdrive in the fast lane, gone before you know it. Enjoy every minute, spend leisure time contemplating, "what the hell was all of that about".
#8. To: Cynicom (#7)
Been pretty darn nice so far. Esp since both Sue and I are in very good physical shape, with some really nice hiking boots and equipment. Just upgraded our bikes to $700-900 quality - OH MY!
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
#9. To: tom007 (#8)
Been looking to upgrade my walker, seems there are no faster models available. Little wisdom for you Tom, I still look at the ladies. I can no longer remember why.
#10. To: Cynicom (#9)
They smell so much better than men. And are usually happy. Little wisdom for you Tom, I still look at the ladies.
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
#11. To: Cynicom (#9)
C, when our older senior friends heard that we were planning "screw it all we're going adventuring" many of them came and said - what a frigging good idea, do it while you can get away from the doctors. Been looking to upgrade my walker, seems there are no faster models available.
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
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