Navy rescue workers sue Japan over Fukushima cover-up — “Irreparable harm to life expectancy” — Gov’t and Tepco conspired

The sailors say they "face additional and irreparable harm to their life expectancy, which has been shortened and cannot be restored to its prior condition."

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They are seeking $10 million in compensatory damages and $30 million in punitive damages for fraud, negligence, strict liability, failure to warn, public and private nuisance, and defective design. They also want TEPCO ordered to establish a fund of $100 million to pay for their medical expenses.

You don't sue because you MIGHT get sick. They knew where they were going and they went. The aircraft carrier was equipped with advanced radiation detection devices.

Didn't all the ones from Gulf I and II get told to fuck off and die literally?

It's not just Tokyo. Look out, West Coast:

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I agree with you. When I read that our military were on their way to Japan, I thought it was ridiculous and dangerous for the USA to send them. The Japanese didn't order them to help.

Besides, to sue because your life is shortened? Who knows that? There's no proof unless you're now dying and it's PROVEN it's from Fukushima, not the x-rays you had at the dentist's office, at the hospital when you broke your arm or leg as a child, or from CT scans.

"The aircraft carrier, which was equipped with advanced radiation detection devices, kept a safe distance from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant."
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^^This

The US were practically begging to get involved in this, while the Jabs didn't want any outside help.

doesn't matter. soldiers can't sue the U.S. Government, dimwit.

The point is they shouldn't have been there in the first place. The Captain should be court marshaled for putting his men in (needless)danger as the vid's information was out long before the incident happened. Stand in line, the citizens of Japan rate higher than the US Navy as far as court cases go, the trial should only last 50 years or so.

you really think people were put in danger?
This story will come to nothing, just money hungry Americans looking to make a quick buck.

you really think people were put in danger?
This story will come to nothing, just money hungry Americans looking to make a quick buck.

One female names her CHILD as a plaintiff!

IMHO this is just BS...

If the US Navy will sue tem , then Ok , but 8 Navy men out of 5.000... BS... it's just for the money... greedy bastards...
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Old news that already has its own threads... just another source...

8 U.S. sailors sue Japanese gov't, TEPCO for lying about radiation

SAN DIEGO — Eight crew members of the USS Ronald Reagan are suing the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) for lying to them about the radiation levels to which they were exposed during rescue operations near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant last year.

In a suit filed in San Diego this week, lead plaintiff Lindsay R Cooper accused TEPCO of intentionally concealing the dangerous levels of radiation in the environment from U.S. Navy rescue crews working as part of “Operation Tomodachi” off the coast of the Tohoku region following the devastating series of earthquakes and tsunami that resulted in the nuclear disaster of March 11, 2011.

In a suit filed in San Diego this week, lead plaintiff Lindsay R Cooper accused TEPCO of intentionally concealing the dangerous levels of radiation in the environment from U.S. Navy rescue crews working as part of “Operation Tomodachi” off the coast of the Tohoku region following the devastating series of earthquakes and tsunami that resulted in the nuclear disaster of March 11, 2011.

According to Courthouse News Service, the plaintiffs assert that the government and TEPCO possessed data about the radiation leakage that they suppressed, thus willfully exposing Navy rescue workers of the U.S.S Ronald Reagan, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier based in San Diego, to dangerous levels of radiation. The suit claims that TEPCO covered up data
suggesting that rescue workers would be exposed to the same amount of radiation that resulted in cancer at Chernobyl.

The sailors are each seeking $10 million in compensatory damages and $30 million in punitive damages for fraud, negligence, strict liability, failure to warn, public and private nuisance and defective design, Courthouse News Service reported. The suit also calls for TEPCO to establish a fund of $100 million to pay for the medical expenses of crew who they say face “additional and irreparable harm to their life expectancy, which has been shortened and cannot be restored to its prior condition.”
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