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In reply to the discussion: 51 Sailors from USS Ronald Reagan Suffering Thyroid Cancer, Leukemia, Brain Tumors After [View all]PamW
(1,825 posts)kristopher states
When they entered the cloud they were unaware of it or they would have not been in it.
100% WRONG AGAIN
The progress of the Fukushima accident was being monitored and calculated from the very early times of the accident by NARAC - National Air Release Advisory Capability at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory:
http://str.llnl.gov/JanFeb12/pdfs/1.12.2.pdf
NARAC was calculating wind direction and fallout deposition and was informing US assets in the area including the US Navy.
This monitoring and modelling started WAY BEFORE the USS Ronald Reagan arrived in the Japanese waters.
When the USS Ronald Reagan was going in; she was well informed of the potential for airborne fallout, and that is why the Reagan had her helicopters with radiation detectors out scouting for the radioactive fallout.
As per usual, kristopher makes his normal UNINFORMED prognostications that the USS Ronald Reagan just blindly went into harm's way and it was only after getting caught in the fallout did anyone think to check for radioactivity.
As per usual, nothing could be further from the truth. Of course, truth has nothing to do when the prime directive is spinning anti-nuclear propaganda.
Even, when FBaggins gives kristopher the link to read what happens; kristopher still doesn't have the accurate story.
NARAC information was passed to the USS Ronald Reagan, and the officers and crew were EXPECTING the radioactive fallout plume.
PamW