[aLurker]

The article claims an assortment of maladies from strange lumps and chronic bronchitis to thyroid and testicular cancers, leukemia and brain tumors.

The latency period for radiation-induced leukemia is 5 to 7 years, and for solid tumors its 10 years or more.

Follow the money on this one. This is just another trial lawyer playing on people's mistrust of government and ignorance of health physics to try to cash in on the TEPCO settlement.

[logi_cal869]

I share like skepticism in regards to lawsuits. However, these sailors were in as close proximity to fallout as the workers at Chernobyl. Case studies in the wake of the atomic testing of the Cold War and Chernobyl conflict with your statement, suggesting radiation-induced leukemia can be prevalent in 2-5 years, depending heavily on the type of exposure, isotopes and many other factors.

I live on the West Coast and have done volumes of research for my health and that of my family.

Without regard to 'journalistic accuracy', I err on the side of the sick sailors in this case.

The effects of radiation are well-known; it's easy to 'arm-chair' this one, but I won't permit my health to be relegated to corporate & government cya.

Opinions vary; I hope you're right and their maladies aren't resultant/actionable, but they were in a fallout cloud...there's no denying that.