Fukushima Isotopes Arriving on the West Coast? Navy Knew USS Ronald Reagan Was Contaminated

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Published on Feb 28, 2014

Paul Gunter, Beyond Nuclear & Nate Sweet, Progressive Commentator both join Thom Hartmann. New documents suggest that the U.S. Navy is lying about what happened to the USS Reagan when it was anchored offshore from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. So what else about the Fukushima disaster is the Navy hiding from us?



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Documents Say Navy Knew Fukushima Dangerously Contaminated the USS Reagan

By: solartopia Wednesday February 26, 2014 8:33 am

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.

Sailors aboard the USS Ronald Reagan wash down the flight deck to remove potential radiation contamination while operating off the coast of Japan providing humanitarian assistance in support of Operation Tomodachi, March 22, 2011.

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.
In the midst of a snow storm, deck hands were enveloped in a warm cloud that came with a metallic taste. Sailors testify that the Reagan’s 5,500-member crew was told over the ship’s intercom to avoid drinking or bathing in desalinized water drawn from a radioactive sea. The huge carrier quickly ceased its humanitarian efforts and sailed 100 miles out to sea, where newly published internal Navy communications confirm it was still taking serious doses of radioactive fallout.
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