You’re assuming they knew the plume was there. The amount of exposure these guys received is not going to lead to lung cancer.
They are in more danger from the hysterics.
It's harder to believe that an aircraft carrier that was designed to operate in a radiated environment, operating near a known nuclear accident, wasn't flying missions monitoring the radioactive plume.
The amount of exposure these guys received is not going to lead to lung cancer.
Depends on the type of radiation. Ingesting a radioactive "flea", IOW, a particle the size of a spec of dust, by breathing it in or swallowing it, is indeed enough to cause cancer, especially if it was cesium or plutonium. It just seems to me to be unnecessarily reckless to expose the ship in this manner. It can certainly be cleaned and decontaminated, but it's a big ship and it only takes ingestion of one minute particle to cause problems.