The question I raise is as follows. The USS Ronald Reagan is the newest carrier in the fleet. It undoubtedly has the most sophisticated weather monitoring equipment currently available because it is a state-of-the-art aircraft carrier. IOW, they know which way the wind is blowing and they know which way the wind is going to blow several days out from present. Why was the carrier put in a position to allow for contamination at all? The Pacific ocean is a very big place and the winds have been forecast to be from the SW for the past several days in this area of Japan. Placing the ship NE of the damaged reactors seems to me to be a real bone-headed thing to do.
Cause it was built to go into harms way? Cause the exposure was actually to a flight crew and not the ship itself?
Cause they know what they are doing?
maybe they were taking readings, got the info they needed and moved out?