[ RadSafe ] US sailors sue Japan's TEPCO for post-quake radiation exposure

[Rees, Brian G]

The people who filed this are unlikely to be "Navy Nucs" - folks who are very well trained to operate US Navy nuclear propulsion systems.  
There are thousands of sailors on an aircraft carrier, some are cream of the crop... others, not so much.  It used to be true in the Navy that people who were less than ideal sailors were sent to larger ships... And they don't get much larger than a carrier!  

(My opinion only, but based on 8 years in the USN, as a Navy Nuc Submariner)

Brian Rees

----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Hart [mailto:magspidy at gmail.com]
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Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] US sailors sue Japan's TEPCO for post-quake	radiation exposure

This is a sad comentary on the knowledge level of current navy nucs
and willingness of people to gain advantage from a very unfortunate
event. I am truely dissappointed in these 'sailors".

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Yoss, Robert <ryoss at mcw.edu> wrote:
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> A group of U.S. Navy personnel involved in the humanitarian effort after Japan's March 2011 earthquake and tsunami have filed a lawsuit against the Tokyo Electric Power Co. for more than $200 million in compensation, punitive damages and future medical costs for exposure to radiation that leaked from the damaged Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant at the time.
> The plaintiffs include eight troops serving on the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier — one of whom was pregnant at the time of the alleged exposure — and her daughter.
> They charge that the utility, known as TEPCO, "knowingly and negligently caused, permitted and allowed misleading information concerning the true condition of the (plant) to be disseminated to the public, including the U.S. Navy Department," according to the complaint filed on Dec. 21 in a U.S. federal court in San Diego.
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> Full story at
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> http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/27/16197507-us-sailors-sue-japans-tepco-for-post-quake-radiation-exposure?lite
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>
> Bob Yoss
> FMLH/MCW
> ryoss at mcw.edu
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