The USS Ronald Reagan

Of course they did!

Did the NSA conceal Fukushima meltdown from military sent into area?

More than 50 U.S. Navy sailors who served aboard ships that responded to the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan report falling ill to cancer and other radiation-linked diseases.

Washington Times,

24 December, 2013

The reported illnesses among sailors who served on the USS Ronald Reagan and other Navy ships make it imperative to ascertain whether the Navy knew or should have known the conditions into which it was sending personnel. To that end, it is critical to know whether the NSA intercepted telephone and email communications from the Tokyo Electric Power Company, and whether the spy agency knew that TEPCO was covering up the multi-reactor meltdown at the time the Pentagon ordered sailors into harm’s way during “Operation Tomodachi.”

It would be hard to imagine that the NSA, the embattled spy agency which has been caught eavesdropping on the German and Brazilian heads of state, as well as on the pope, was not using all available surveillance technology and Japanese translators to monitor the unfolding TEPCO catastrophe. It would be highly unlikely that it failed to provide the Obama Administration with frequent updates on the situation.

Did the Navy get updates about Fukushima from NSA? Who was responsible for deciding who would get updates? Who was responsible if the NSA did not provide them?

These are questions that the sickened sailors and their families will want answered, as a growing class-action lawsuit against TEPCO moves forward, as reported by Fox News.

The Navy’s decision to move ships into the area near Fukushima could spell another scandal for President Obama at a time when his approval ratings are reaching new lows, and could further alienate military veterans.

The case also raises serious questions about whether the NSA properly executed its mission to protect U.S. troops from overseas threats. These possible injuries came at a time when the spy agency seemed preoccupied with conducting surveillance on the American people in what U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon called an “almost Orwellian” violation of the U.S. Constitution in his ruling on the NSA’s PRISM program.

Sailors of USS Ronald Reagan exposed to radaition

Navy sailors have radiation sickness after Japan rescue

TEPCO has found a record 1.9 million becquerels per liter of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances at its No.2 reactor. Also radioactive cesium was detected in deeper groundwater at No.4 unit’s well, as fears grow of a new leak into the ocean.

NY Post,

22 December, 2013

Navy sailor Lindsay Cooper knew something was wrong when billows of metallic-tasting snow began drifting over USS Ronald Reagan.

“I was standing on the flight deck, and we felt this warm gust of air, and, suddenly, it was snowing,” Cooper recalled of the day in March 2011 when she and scores of crewmates watched a sudden storm blow toward them from the tsunami-torn coast of Fukushima, Japan.

The tall 24-year-old with a winning smile didn’t know it then, but the snow was caused by the freezing Pacific air mixing with a plume of radioactive steam from the city’s shattered nuclear reactor.

Now, nearly three years after their deployment on a humanitarian mission to Japan’s ravaged coast, Cooper and scores of her fellow crew members on the aircraft carrier and a half-dozen other support ships are battling cancers, thyroid disease, uterine bleeding and other ailments.

“We joked about it: ‘Hey, it’s radioactive snow!’ ” Cooper recalled. “I took pictures and video.”

But now “my thyroid is so out of whack that I can lose 60 to 70 pounds in one month and then gain it back the next,” said Cooper, fighting tears. “My menstrual cycle lasts for six months at a time, and I cannot get pregnant. It’s ruined me.”

The fallout of those four days spent off the Fukushima coast has been tragic to many of the 5,000 sailors who were there.

At least 70 have been stricken with some form of radiation sickness, and of those, “at least half . . . are suffering from some form of cancer,” their lawyer, Paul Garner, told The Post Saturday.

NY Post: Snow falling on Navy ship caused by Fukushima radioactive steam… “Is that aluminum foil I taste?”

• Sailor: People were defecating on themselves in hallways from excruciating diarrhea
• Officer: We saw radiation 300 times ‘safe’ levels

ENENews,

22 December, 2013

New York Post, Dec. 22, 2013: Navy sailor Lindsay Cooper knew something was wrong when billows of metallic-tasting snow began drifting over USS Ronald Reagan. [...] she and scores of crewmates watched a sudden storm blow toward them from the tsunami-torn coast of Fukushima, Japan. The tall 24-year-old with a winning smile didn’t know it then, but the snow was caused by the freezing Pacific air mixing with a plume of radioactive steam [...] Senior Chief Michael Sebourn, a radiation-decontamination officer, was assigned to test the aircraft carrier for radiation. The levels were incredibly dangerous and at one point, the radiation in the air measured 300 times higher than what was considered safe, Sebourn told The Post.

Lindsay Cooper, Navy sailor aboard USS Ronald Reagan during 3/11 rescue operation: “I was standing on the flight deck, and we felt this warm gust of air, and, suddenly, it was snowing [...] We joked about it: ‘Hey, it’s radioactive snow! I took pictures and video [...] Japan didn’t want us in port, Korea didn’t want us, Guam turned us away. We floated in the water for two and a half months [until Thailand took them in] “People were s- -tting themselves in the hallways [All the while crew members had been suffering from excruciating diarrhea].”

Cooper interviewed by EON, published Dec. 20, 2013: (at 4:30 in) “As soon as you step foot on the flight deck and went outside you had this taste of like aluminum foil.”[...] (at 10:45 in) We thought that we had felt a plume because there was kind of this warm air that went past the ship and you could kind of tell the differences between jet exhaust — we didn’t have any jets going around at the time. It was like 20 degrees outside and you could feel this warm air and you kind of enjoyed it at first and then you’re like, ‘Is that aluminum foil that I taste?’

Fukushima health damage

Health damages shown among a family from Fukushima City (60km from NPP)

SaveKidsJapan,

25 September, 2013

A mail to UNSCEAR from a mother who used to stay in Fukushima City (60km west of NPP) for more than 2 years

私は福島市出身で原発事故当時も福島に住んでいました。

I am from Fukushima City and I was there at the time of Fukushima nuclear accident.

事故から２年後の今年の春、一気に家族の体調が悪くなり事故後、喉のつまりと痰が絡むのが続いていたのに加え、空咳が止まらなくなり病院で検査してもらいましたが原因不明。

Spring of 2013, 2 years after the accident, members of my family had deteriorated health all at once. We continued to have stuffed throat with phelm, could not stop dry coughing. We had medical inspection at a hospital, but the doctor couldn't tell the cause of our symptoms.

私と同じ症状で原因不明の患者さんがとても多いと言ってました。

However, the doctor said that there are many patients who show the same symptom with unknown causes.

子供は足の裏の骨の痛みを訴えるようになり周りの方に聞くと子供も大人も同じ症状が出ている。

My child began to complain pain in his foot bones and I heard many people including children and adults have the same syptoms.

病院に行っても原因不明と。

Again, doctors told us that they didn't know the reason.

そして私も線量の高い地区を仕事で歩いていたら足の裏の骨の痛みに加え手足のあらゆるところの骨が痛みだしイタイイタイ病のようになりドアの開閉も出来ない位痛みました。

I myself had bone pains all over my arms and legs after I worked in high-dose areas. The pain was so fierce and I could not open and close a door even. It was like Itai-Itai (Ouch-Ouch) disease.

(翻訳者メモ:イタイイタイ病はカドミウムが原因であり、原子炉では中性子制御材としてカドミウムが使われている。

Translator's NoteOuch-Ouch disease is caused by cadomium, which is used as neutron-control agent in nuclear reactor. )

怖くなり線量の高い地区を歩くのを止め一週間で痛みはなくなりましたが腕や足の皮膚を針で刺すようなチクチクという痛痒さはずっと続いてました。

I became scared and stopped walking in high-dose area, then the pain stopped after a week. However, on my arms and legs, painful and itchy sensation as if being touched by needles continued for a while.

息子と私はその後吐き気と頭痛が続き、息子は血圧低下、血尿が続き原因不明。

After that, my son and I had continued naucea and headaches. My son had lowered blood pressure and bloody urine, too.

家族で7月に県外に避難後1か月過ぎてから体調がよくなりました。

My family moved out of Fukushima in July. One month afterwards, we all became better.

私達と同じ症状の方たちがとても増えています。

However in Fukushima, there is a sharp increase of people who show the same symptoms.

鼻血が止まらなくなりなる子もとても増えています。

There is a much increase of children who has prolonged nose bleeding.

急性心筋梗塞で亡くなる方もとても増えています。

The number of people who died of acute myocardial infarction is increasing.

放射能で健康被害が出ていないというのは国が何もなかった事にしようとしていると皆口を揃えて言っています。

Everybody is saying that the government is trying to make up a story where nothing had happened to people's health by just saying, "Radiation did not affect health."

行政ではなく市民一人一人の声を聞いて下さい。

In stead of listening to such government, please do listen to each citizen's voice.

子供達も大人もとてもとても辛く苦しい思いをしています。

Both children and adults have been suffering tremendously.

どうかちゃんと調べて下さい。お願いします。

Please do conduct a real health survey.

This is my earnest hope.

Radiation-related illnessess in US military

This story came through ENE News. When I tried I could not access the original article, so here is an alternative source

More U.S. military reveal radiation-related illnesses after Fukushima: Arm shrunk to half its size, Leukemia, testicular cancer

Service members from aircraft carrier all dying!

More U.S. military reveal radiation-related illnesses after Fukushima: Arm shrunk to half its size — Immune system attacking body — Leukemia, testicular cancer, thyroid problems, rectal bleeding, brain tumor

Matthew M. Burke

Godlikeproductions,

15 July, 2013

Five months after participating in humanitarian operations for the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami that led to nuclear disaster in Japan, Petty Officer 3rd Class Daniel Hair’s body began to betray him.

He had sharp hip pains, constant scabbing in his nose, back pain, memory loss, severe anxiety and a constant high-pitch ringing in his ears as his immune system began to attack his body. The diagnosis, he said, was a genetic immune system disease, which on X-rays looked to have made his hip joint jagged and his spine arthritic. [...]

Other servicemembers have been diagnosed with leukemia, testicular cancer and thyroid problems or experienced rectal and gynecological bleeding, the lawsuit says. Hair said one of his friends, a fellow USS Ronald Reagan shipmate, was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Hair said there is no history of the genetic disease in his family and that doctors have told him radiation exposure could have triggered it. [...]

Senior Chief Mike Sebourn [...] said he suffered nose bleeds, headaches and nausea in the immediate aftermath — symptoms consistent with radiation poisoning. Months later, he felt weak in his right arm; excruciating pain followed. He said the command fitness leader in charge of physical training at Atsugi watched as his arm atrophied to about half its size. [...]