US Sent Thousands of Sailors to Help With Fukushima. Did Radiation Make Them Sick

[unhappycamper]

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/08/fukushima-radiation-us-sailors-navy

A $1 billion lawsuit accuses Japanese energy company Tepco of failing to prevent the accident and lying about radiation levels.

US Sent Thousands of Sailors to Help With Fukushima. Did Radiation Make Them Sick
By Suzanne Goldenberg and James West
| Wed Aug. 20, 2014 11:37 AM EDT

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The first time it occurred to James Jackson that there could be lasting damage from his US Navy service during Japan's tsunami and nuclear disaster came when his eldest son, Darius, was diagnosed with leukemia.

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The lawsuit alleges a number of the sailors and their children suffered thyroid and other cancers, leukemia, birth defects, and a variety of medical conditions including infertility after they were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. Some of the sailors were also diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. One of the sailors named in the lawsuit, helicopter mechanic Theodor Holcomb, who served on the USS Reagan aircraft carrier, died of a rare cancer on April 24. The lawsuit seeks $1 billion for a medical monitoring and treatment fund.

The case is one of a number of lawsuits brought against Tepco in US and Japanese courts after the accident on March 11, 2011.

An earlier suit brought by the sailors was dismissed in April. Tepco said: "It is wholly implausible…to posit that military commanders in charge of thousands of personnel and armed with some of the world's most expensive equipment relied instead only on the press releases and public statements of a foreign electric utility company."

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Does anyone know where the USS Raygun is now parked? I heard they had to move it to another location because it was too hot.

[littlemissmartypants]

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[unhappycamper]

2. Thank you for your kind words. n/t

[littlemissmartypants]

3. You're welcome. They're given freely without threat from coercion.

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[FBaggins]

4. No. Radiation did not make them sick.

Not only has there never been a scientific association between doses at that level and identifiable increases in negative health impacts, the vast majority of those participating in the lawsuit do not even claim injuries that could plausibly be associated with radiation exposure at much higher levels. Let's see an example:

The first time it occurred to James Jackson that there could be lasting damage from his US Navy service during Japan's tsunami and nuclear disaster came when his eldest son, Darius, was diagnosed with leukemia.

Some ambulance chaser is preying on this poor family. We're honestly to believe that someone living 175 miles from Fukushima somehow received a dose high enough to cause leukemia in under two years?

Does anyone know where the USS Raygun is now parked? I heard they had to move it to another location because it was too hot.

Of course that was always nonsense. They "moved her to another location" in 2012 to PSNS/IMF for the DPIA that was scheduled long before Fukushima occured. She has been back with her group (in San Diego) for almost a year and a half now.