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US sailors sue Japan's TEPCO for post-quake radiation exposure
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<blockquote data-quote="Opmmur" data-source="post: 63219" data-attributes="member: 13"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>US sailors sue Japan's TEPCO for post-quake radiation exposure</strong></span></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121227-japanNuclear-hmed-633p.photoblog600.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><em>Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier 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 on March 22, 2011.</em></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">By Kari Huus, NBC News</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">A group of U.S. Navy personnel involved in the humanitarian effort after Japan's March 2011 earthquake and tsunami have filed a lawsuit against the Tokyo Electric Power Co. for more than $200 million in compensation, punitive damages and future medical costs for exposure to radiation that leaked from the damaged Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant at the time.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">The plaintiffs include eight troops serving on the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier — o</span>ne of whom was pregnant at the time of the alleged exposure — and her daughter.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">They charge that the utility, known as TEPCO, "knowingly and negligently caused, permitted and allowed misleading information concerning the true condition of the (plant) to be disseminated to the public, including the U.S. Navy Department," according to the <a href="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/z_Personal/Huus/Fukushima.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue">complaint filed on Dec. 21</span></a> in a U.S. federal court in San Diego.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> The plaintiffs are suffering a variety of symptoms that attorney Paul Garner says were caused by the exposure, including rectal bleeding, thyroid problems and persistent migraine headaches, and all face an increased chance of developing cancer and requiring expensive medical procedures.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The U.S. carrier was positioned just offshore from the damaged Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, which and suffered a meltdown which triggered the release of high levels of radiation into the air and water.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">He said the crew was unknowingly exposed to high levels of radiation in numerous ways, including when they cleared the carrier's decks of snow that was contaminated, and washed down the helicopters with sea water that was contaminated.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Archival video: Of all the aftershocks that could hit Japan, nothing frightens the world more than the possibility of a devastating nuclear disaster. NBC's Anne Thompson.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The complaint said that by relying on misrepresentations about the situation by TEPCO, the U.S. Navy was "lulled into a false sense of security," believing it was "safe to operate with the waters adjacent to the FNPP, without doing research and testing that would have revealed the problems."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">It goes on to charge that through its conduct, TEPCO "rendered the Plaintiffs infirm and poisoned their bodies. The Plaintiffs must now endure a lifetime of radiation poisoning and suffering which could have and should have been avoided."</span></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/42049755#42049755" target="_blank">Meltdown fears at damaged nuclear reactor - Video on NBCNews.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Opmmur, post: 63219, member: 13"] [SIZE=6][B]US sailors sue Japan's TEPCO for post-quake radiation exposure[/B][/SIZE] [IMG]http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121227-japanNuclear-hmed-633p.photoblog600.jpg[/IMG] [I]Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier 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 on March 22, 2011.[/I] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4]By Kari Huus, NBC News[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4]A group of U.S. Navy personnel involved in the humanitarian effort after Japan's March 2011 earthquake and tsunami have filed a lawsuit against the Tokyo Electric Power Co. for more than $200 million in compensation, punitive damages and future medical costs for exposure to radiation that leaked from the damaged Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant at the time.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4]The plaintiffs include eight troops serving on the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier — o[/SIZE]ne of whom was pregnant at the time of the alleged exposure — and her daughter.[/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman]They charge that the utility, known as TEPCO, "knowingly and negligently caused, permitted and allowed misleading information concerning the true condition of the (plant) to be disseminated to the public, including the U.S. Navy Department," according to the [URL='http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/z_Personal/Huus/Fukushima.pdf'][COLOR=blue]complaint filed on Dec. 21[/COLOR][/URL] in a U.S. federal court in San Diego.[/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman] The plaintiffs are suffering a variety of symptoms that attorney Paul Garner says were caused by the exposure, including rectal bleeding, thyroid problems and persistent migraine headaches, and all face an increased chance of developing cancer and requiring expensive medical procedures.[/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman]The U.S. carrier was positioned just offshore from the damaged Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, which and suffered a meltdown which triggered the release of high levels of radiation into the air and water.[/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman]He said the crew was unknowingly exposed to high levels of radiation in numerous ways, including when they cleared the carrier's decks of snow that was contaminated, and washed down the helicopters with sea water that was contaminated.[/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman]Archival video: Of all the aftershocks that could hit Japan, nothing frightens the world more than the possibility of a devastating nuclear disaster. NBC's Anne Thompson.[/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman]The complaint said that by relying on misrepresentations about the situation by TEPCO, the U.S. Navy was "lulled into a false sense of security," believing it was "safe to operate with the waters adjacent to the FNPP, without doing research and testing that would have revealed the problems."[/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman]It goes on to charge that through its conduct, TEPCO "rendered the Plaintiffs infirm and poisoned their bodies. The Plaintiffs must now endure a lifetime of radiation poisoning and suffering which could have and should have been avoided."[/FONT] [URL='http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/42049755#42049755']Meltdown fears at damaged nuclear reactor - Video on NBCNews.com[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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