Tag Archives: Operation Tomodachi

Aircraft carrier to get post-Fukushima decontamination via Marine Log

Posted on 2016/07/26 by norma field

JULY 25, 2016 – Earlier this year, defense media reported Navy officials as saying that 16 ships remained contaminated with low levels of radiation five years after taking in part in relief efforts following Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant … Continue reading →

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Former Japanese leader starts fund for US vets who helped Fukushima via Stars and Stripes

Posted on 2016/07/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] Hundreds of veterans, claiming a host of medical conditions they say are related to radiation exposure after participating in Operation Tomodachi relief efforts, have filed suit against the nuclear plant’s operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Co. A massive earthquake … Continue reading →

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Tearful Koizumi backs U.S. vets suing over 2011 nuclear disaster via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2016/05/19 by norma field

CARLSBAD, California–Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi broke down in tears as he made an emotional plea of support for U.S. Navy sailors beset by health problems they claim resulted from radioactive fallout after the 2011 nuclear disaster. More than 400 … Continue reading →

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16 US ships that aided in Operation Tomodachi still contaminated with radiation via The Stars and Stripes

Posted on 2016/05/18 by norma field

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Sixteen U.S. ships that participated in relief efforts after Japan’s nuclear disaster five years ago remain contaminated with low levels of radiation from the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, top Navy officials told Stars and … Continue reading →

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Sailors Sickened in Japan Radiation Leak Meet Former Prime Minister via 7 San Diego

Posted on 2016/05/18 by norma field

Former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi spent three days in San Diego hearing from sick U.S. Navy sailors. Many of them served on USS Ronald Reagan. The sailors participated in Operation Tomodachi five years ago, providing aid to Japan after … Continue reading →

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Fukushima fallout: What’s next for sailors who were exposed? via KOMO News

Posted on 2015/02/12 by norma field

Hundreds of sailors and Marines, some from right here in the Northwest, are in the fight of their lives, battling a baffling mix of diseases they say came from radiation exposure. And it all started with a mission of mercy … Continue reading →

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Fukushima fallout suit: ‘Sailors were marinating in radioactive particles’ via KOMO News

Posted on 2015/02/12 by norma field

OAK HARBOR, Wash. — There is a group of sailors and Marines, some from right here in the Northwest, who consider themselves warriors, wounded in a battle they didn’t realize they were fighting against an enemy that’s both terrifying and … Continue reading →

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NUCLEAR HOTSEAT #179: BREAKING: 2ND USS REAGAN DEATH via nuclearhotseat

Posted on 2014/12/02 by norma field

Second death in the USS Reagan/Operation Tomadachi case. Exclusive interview w/Charles Bonner, attorney for the sailors in the $1 Billion lawsuit against TEPCO, General Electric, EBASCO, Toshiba and Hitachi. Listen here.

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Judge: Sailors’ class-action suit can proceed over alleged radiation exposure via The Stars and Stripes

Posted on 2014/10/30 by norma field

A U.S. federal judge has ruled that a class-action lawsuit filed by about 200 Navy sailors and Marines can proceed against Japanese utility TEPCO and other defendants who they blame for a variety of ailments from radiation exposure following a … Continue reading →

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US sailors prepare for fresh legal challenge over Fukushima radiation via The Guardian

Posted on 2014/08/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

$1bn lawsuit accuses Tepco of failing to avoid the accident and of lying about radiation levels that have caused health problems to themselves and their families stationed in Japan The first time it occurred to James Jackson that there could … Continue reading →

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