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U.S. Sailors Sick From Fukushima Radiation File New Suit Against Tokyo Electric Power
2014-02-09 19:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Citing a wide range of ailments from leukemia to blindness to birth defects, 79 American veterans of 2011s earthquake/tsunami relief Operation Tomadachi ("Friendship") have filed a new $1 billion class action lawsuit against Tokyo Electric Power. The suit includes an infant born with a genetic condition to a sailor who served on the USS Ronald Reagan as radiation poured over it during the Fukushima melt-downs, and an American teenager living near the stricken site. It has also been left open...
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Japan: Toll of U.S. Sailors Devastated by Fukushima Radiation Continues to Climb
2014-01-11 17:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The roll call of U.S. sailors who say their health was devastated when they were irradiated while delivering humanitarian help near the stricken Fukushima nuke is continuing to soar. So many have come forward that the progress of their federal class action lawsuit has been delayed. Bay area lawyer Charles Bonner says a re-filing will wait until early February to accommodate a constant influx of sailors from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and other American ships. U.S. sailors irradiated...
U.S. Sailors Sue Japanese Nuclear Plant Owner TEPCO
2014-01-03 22:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
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...
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The Mission to Seafarers sets up new emergency communications fund for Filipino sailors
2013-11-13 01:00:00| Ship Technology
The Mission to Seafarers, a UK-based Christian welfare charity serving merchant sailors, has set up a new emergency communications fund at 47 centres across the globe for Filipino sailors.
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Patrol Squadron 47 Sailors Maintain Aircraft
2013-11-06 10:43:00| Naval Technology
Sailors based at Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily, Italy have the important task of maintaining aircraft from Patrol Squadron 47. US Navy Chief Petty Officer Jeff Ogata explains the success of his maintenance team. (Video: US Navy)
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