[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, GLOBAL: "Documents Say Navy Knew Fukushima Dangerously Contaminated the USS Reagan"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Documents Say Navy Knew Fukushima Dangerously Contaminated the USS  
Reagan

by Harvey Wasserman
Eco-Watch
February 26, 2014

A stunning new report indicates the U.S. Navy knew that sailors from  
the nuclear-powered USS Ronald Reagan took major radiation hits from  
the Fukushima atomic power plant after its meltdowns and explosions  
nearly three years ago.

If true, the revelations cast new light on the $1 billion lawsuit  
filed by the sailors against Tokyo Electric Power. Many of the  
sailors are already suffering devastating health impacts, but are  
being stonewalled by Tepco and the Navy.

The Reagan had joined several other U.S. ships in Operation Tomodachi  
(“Friendship”) to aid victims of the March 11, 2011 quake and  
tsunami. Photographic evidence and first-person testimony confirms  
that on March 12, 2011 the ship was within two miles of Fukushima  
Dai’ichi as the reactors there began to melt and explode.

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For the entire article, see
http://ecowatch.com/2014/02/26/navy-knew-fukushima-contaminated-uss- 
reagan/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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