Posted on 12/21/2013 4:20:53 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Sickened by service: More US sailors claim cancer from helping at Fukushima
By Perry Chiaramonte
Published December 20, 2013
FoxNews.com
When the USS Ronald Reagan responded to the tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011, Navy sailors including Quartermaster Maurice Enis gladly pitched in with rescue efforts.
But months later, while still serving aboard the aircraft carrier, he began to notice strange lumps all over his body. Testing revealed he'd been poisoned with radiation, and his illness would get worse. And his fiance and fellow Reagan quartermaster, Jamie Plym, who also spent several months helping near the Fukushima nuclear power plant, also began to develop frightening symptoms, including chronic bronchitis and hemorrhaging.
“I get so angry. They said as long as the plume was avoided we would be fine."
- Navy sailor Jamie Plym
They and 49 other U.S. Navy members who served aboard the Reagan and sister ship the USS Essex now trace illnesses including thyroid and testicular cancers, leukemia and brain tumors to the time spent aboard the massive ship, whose desalination system pulled in seawater that was used for drinking, cooking and bathing. In a lawsuit filed against Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the plaintiffs claim the power company delayed telling the U.S. Navy the tsunami had caused a nuclear meltdown, sending huge amounts of contaminated water into the sea and, ultimately, into the ship's water system.
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You warned about this possibility back when it happened. Now it is a reality: the rerun of Agent Orange lawsuit.
ouch :/
Hmm.. I have been exposed to 245T (Agent Orange) much more than many people... no deformities with my kids.. or me, although I do seem to have a problem with my pancreas :/ (from young stupidity :p)
Oh.. and a growing lack of hair (oxymoron?!)..
;^)
You would think a modern naval vessel would have radiation detection equipment onboard to prevent inhaling potentially radioactive seawater into the ship's systems. If this has happened, the ship itself is now contaminated. With things the way they are with the Regime (see Benghazi) I fully expect a coverup if this happened.
How many people are sick out of what overall number? Are these numbers more than normal? An aircraft carrier has somewhere around 5,000 people?
Statistically there will be terrible illnesses in so many out of that many people.
How do we know there is any connection to being near Fukishima?
We sprayed 2-45T mixed with 2-4D (That is the mix that is Agent Orange) on our pasture in the early 70’s. As a young kid I had it all over me.
50 out of 5000 seems a lot. That is 1% of crews. Do general population has the same rate of such cancer outbreak as these sailors?
Oh no! We have former teacher friends, whose husbands are military, who went there at the time. I pray they are not among those, but it’s possible. I shall have to find them on facebook and see how they are.
Banvel 2+2?
Just have to get more detail if it is connected; it could be. But many of these stories later turn out to be false and poorly documented.
also, hard to keep up with the mixes... they had Orange, Blue, Purple, etc... :p
I remember Banvel; it could drift easily and kill soybeans.
I remember reading news report that radiation alarm went off aboard USS Reagan at the time, and it turned its head and sailed away at full speed to the south well past Yokosuka Base.
BTW... it gave bad sunburns (referring to being sprayed to control crops).
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Tiger..there was an article posted on FB on this subject as well back on the 12th. Wondering what else they’re not telling us. Makes me ill that our men and women aboard the ship are ill from this. Very grim and this freaking thing is still leaking!!!
http://www.turnerradionetwork.com/news/99-pat
From here, from Facebook posted March 13, 2011, by Commanding Officer Capt. Thom Burke:
"During our mission to assist our close allies of Japan, we were operating near the radioactive plume from Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant. As you may have already heard, radioactivity was detected on 17 personnel from our ship..."
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