The USS Reagan Is Fukushima’s Unlucky Dragon

[unhappycamper]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/harvey-wasserman/54607/the-uss-reagan-is-fukushima-s-unlucky-dragon

The USS Reagan Is Fukushima’s Unlucky Dragon
Energy Policy | Environmental Policy
by Harvey Wasserman | March 5, 2014 - 10:53am

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The nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was close off shore to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on March 11, 2011, when three reactors there began to melt, followed by four explosions and a deluge of radioactive water into the Pacific.

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Transcribed official communications now confirm the Navy knew the Reagan was immersed in radiation.

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Japan, South Korea and Guam deemed the Reagan too radioactive to enter their ports.

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Prevailing winds could well have dumped Fukushima’s worst fallout on the Reagan’s 5,500 sailors. One sailor, pregnant that March, gave birth in September to a child with multiple birth defects. Scores now report a wide range of ailments that parallel those from the Lucky Dragon, the Marshall Islands, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. “We were being chased by a death sentence,” one of them says.

[kristopher]

1. Some excellent links from that article

International Policy Digest
Contamination of USS Ronald Reagan During Fukushima Response Underreported
By Peter Lee | February 6, 2014

http://www.internationalpolicydigest.org/2014/02/06/contamination-uss-ronald-reagan-fukushima-response-underreported/

That article links to this

The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 11, Issue 11, No. 4. March 18, 2013.
Fukushima Rescue Mission Lasting Legacy: Radioactive Contamination of Nearly 70,000 Americans
福島救援活動の永続する遺産—アメリカ人の被曝
ROGER WITHERSPOON

http://japanfocus.org/-Roger-Witherspoon/3918

The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 11, Issue 12, No. 1. March 25, 2013.
A Lasting Legacy of the Fukushima Rescue Mission: Cat and Mouse with a Nuclear Ghost
福島救援活動の永続する遺産—核の幽霊といたちごっこ
Roger Witherspoon
This is part two of a two part series.

http://japanfocus.org/-Roger-Witherspoon/3919

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Those linked articles are worth their own post.

I hope you will consider posting them, Kristopher.
It is the first time I have even heard a whisper of our Japan based US military experience.
sure sounds as if they got shafted too.

Good for Bernie Sanders insisting on the creation of a Medical Registry.

[proReality]

2. And they want to keep building these plants. n/t

[WillyT]

3. K & R !!!

[mopinko]

4. my nieces husband was on that ship.

i don't see them, but i hope they are done having kids.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Has MSM even addressed this issue?

I know that earlier reports I read online quoted the Navy as denying there was any problem.
Now more and more information is coming out,
but not on MSM?
( don't have a tv)