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Garin
12-21-2013, 11:00 AM
» Sickened by service: 51 US sailors claim cancer from helping at Fukushima Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind! (http://www.infowars.com/sickened-by-service-51-us-sailors-claim-cancer-from-helping-at-fukushima/)

Cocaine
12-21-2013, 12:06 PM
I hadn't heard about this but it doesn't surprise me. Especially with the uptick of Cancer cases in Japan since Fukashima. I guess these sailors should be added to long list of people sick from this disaster.

OKCisOK4me
12-21-2013, 12:06 PM
Is that you Eric?

Oh GAWD the Smell!
12-21-2013, 05:03 PM
I'm not clicking on an infowars link. I don't want to catch the stupid.

Garin
12-21-2013, 08:40 PM
It's a Huffington post article ,so it's probably too late.

Just the facts
12-21-2013, 10:14 PM
You would think a nuclear aircraft carrier that draws water from the ocean would have some kind of radiation detection system tied into it. I'm not going call BS on this yet, but my finger is hovering over the 'B'.

Garin
12-21-2013, 10:45 PM
US Sailors to Refile Fukushima Radiation Lawsuit
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Dec 20, 2013 | by Brendan McGarry
Weeks after a judge dismissed the case, an attorney for U.S. sailors exposed to radiation after the 2011 earthquake off the coast of Japan said he intends to refile the lawsuit.
Charles Bonner, who represents 51 sailors who served aboard the USS Ronald Reagan during disaster relief operations after the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, said he plans to amend and refile the complaint against Tokyo Electric Power Co., or Tepco, in part to include another 25 to 50 service members.
The utility's Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant was crippled by the storm and became the site of the world's worst nuclear meltdown in decades. Like the previous version, the new complaint will allege the company knowingly withheld information from the U.S. military about the risk posed by radioactive material that contaminated the area and poisoned American sailors who responded with emergency aid.
"They lied to the public," Bonner said in a telephone interview. "They lied to the U.S. military about the leak that was going on. They didn't tell the U.S. military that they were in full meltdown mode."
Janis Sammartino, a federal judge in San Diego, last month filed a motion to dismiss the case. She argued that she didn't have the authority to conclude whether the government of Japan collaborated with the utility to commit fraud against the U.S. But she left open the possibility of another lawsuit.
Bonner, of the Sausalito, Calif.-based law firm, Bonner & Bonner, said the amended complaint will only be against Tepco. The filing was expected in coming weeks.
A spokesman for Tokyo-based utility didn't immediately respond to an e-mail request for comment.
The suit, Cooper et al v. Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc. et al, was initially filed last year in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in San Diego. The lead plaintiff, Lindsay Cooper, now 24, is a California resident and worked as an aviation boatswain's mate on the flight deck of the Reagan, which had a crew of about 5,500 sailors at the time of the incident, according to the complaint.
Three or four crew members aboard the Reagan have contacted Bonner about joining the case because they've since been diagnosed with various medical problems such as leukemia and testicular cancer, he said. His firm is also considering filing a separate suit involving contractors who were harmed in the incident, he said.
The crew members aboard the aircraft carrier, the flagship of the Reagan Strike Group, a formation of ships operating within the Navy's 7th Fleet area of responsibility, responded to the disaster in a mission known as Operation Tomadachi, the Japanese word for "friend," according to a copy of the complaint.
While ferrying food and water to the residents of Sendai, the nearest major city to the earthquake on the Fukushima prefecture, the sailors "were repeatedly exposed to ionizing radiation," a carcinogen linked to numerous health problems, the document states.
The Navy relocated the ship two days later after finding trace levels of contamination in the vicinity and on more than a dozen crew members. But ship remained in the area for almost a month to provide relief.
An official Navy photograph from March 23, 2011, shows sailors using brooms to wash down the ship's flight deck "to remove potential radiation contamination," according to the caption.
During the mission, Tepco and Japanese government officials claimed there was no danger of radiation to the Reagan or other ships in the fleet, according to the complaint. "They asserted that ‘Everything is under control,' ‘all is OK, you can trust us,' and there is ‘no immediate danger' or threat to human life, all while lying unashamedly about the reactor meltdowns," it states.
The sailors asked for the creation of a $1 billion fund to pay for their medical exams, monitoring and treatments, as well as reimbursement of lost wages and punitive damages, among other relief.
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kwhey
12-21-2013, 10:59 PM
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Nice job reading Garin.

Plutonic Panda
12-21-2013, 11:09 PM
Oh wow, cleaning up waste put off by a nuclear fission power plant after a meltdown and ending up with cancer, who would've thought????? lol ;P

Bunty
12-22-2013, 12:52 AM
I'm not clicking on an infowars link. I don't want to catch the stupid.

Well, no wonder the country gets screwed up and out of control. Too many people can't believe how bad or stupid some of the events in the world can become, possibly to the point of denial.

Oh GAWD the Smell!
12-22-2013, 07:42 AM
Well, no wonder the country gets screwed up and out of control. Too many people can't believe how bad or stupid some of the events in the world can become, possibly to the point of denial.
Or by giving those with poor critical thinking skills a giant megaphone and a seat at the table. That might be a problem too.

Garin
12-23-2013, 08:44 PM
Navy sailors have radiation sickness after Japan rescue | New York Post (http://nypost.com/2013/12/22/70-navy-sailors-left-sickened-by-radiation-after-japan-rescue/)

Garin
01-01-2014, 03:58 PM
» US Government Orders 14 Million Doses of Potassium Iodide Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind! (http://www.infowars.com/us-government-orders-14-million-doses-of-potassium-iodide/)

trousers
01-01-2014, 07:03 PM
» US Government Orders 14 Million Doses of Potassium Iodide Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind! (http://www.infowars.com/us-government-orders-14-million-doses-of-potassium-iodide/)
Alex Jones is a complete hack. At the bottom of the article is a YouTube ad for his new Infowars Life "health" products. This ad is shilling IODINE DROPS THAT PROTECT YOU FROM RADIATION! What a fricking snake oil salesman. He has a fricking article about the spread of radiation, then he offers you radiation drops for sale. What a fricking joke.

Hey Garin how many bottles have you bought?

Oh GAWD the Smell!
01-01-2014, 10:32 PM
Navy sailors have radiation sickness after Japan rescue | New York Post (http://nypost.com/2013/12/22/70-navy-sailors-left-sickened-by-radiation-after-japan-rescue/)

Per that article (no real source other than random crewperson that is so far out of the information loop on a carrier it's not funny), half of the 70 suing have come down with some sort of cancer.

That ship, with the air detachment on board is 5,500-6,000. At a half-percent per person per year (a reasonable estimate for males in that population range), times two and a half years, the probable number of crew members who would get cancer in that period - is about 30-35. What do you freakin' know?

And this part..."excruciating diarrhea. ~ People were s- -tting themselves in the hallways,"

To get diarrhea in that short of a time - of the sort described - you have to have something like over 6 Grays of exposure. That's a stupid, STUPID amount. Which means that without hospitalization, 100% of those people with diarrhea are dead in a month. They're certainly not walking around two or three years later. FYI, the operators in the damn control room at Chernobyl would have gotten 6 Grays or so if they'd stayed in the control room for over a week. Also...Actual hard tumors from radiation take over a decade to show up.

Keep in mind that two people died at the plant in Fukushima. And they drowned. Nobody died of radiation exposure. And radiation gets ridiculously weaker in just short distances.

Almost everything about that article is speculative crap from some willfully ignorant people and/or people looking for a payday.

betts
01-02-2014, 03:44 AM
Remember that there have been multiple documented viral diarrhea outbreaks on cruise ships. It would be interesting to know if there was any viral testing done on the sick cruise members. Most radiation-induced cancers are leukemias, especially if the cancer develops within several years. The thyroid gland is also particularly vulnerable, but those cancers generally occur years after exposure, as do most other solid tumors. Testicular cancer is most common in younger men, which is the demographic most common on Navy ships. You'd really have to look at the incidence of each type of tumor in that age group and see if there was a dramatic increase in what was expected to occur naturally in that population.