Environment News Service: Seventy-one U.S. Navy sailors from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan are filing suit against the Japanese utility Tokyo Electric Power Company, TEPCO, after they were allegedly exposed to radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant when they arrived in Japan with aid.
On March 11, 2011, a severe earthquake and tsunami knocked out power and emergency generators at the TEPCO nuclear plant on Japan`s Pacific coast, leaving the power plant`s nuclear fuel without cooling water. The...