Sailors from Ronald Reagan Battle Group Suffering from Cancer 3 Years After Japanese Quake

Over 50 Sailors who served on the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) are Suffering from Thyroid Cancer, Leukemia, and Brain Tumors after participating in Humanitarian assistance during the Japanese earthquake of 2011.

At least 71 sailorsâ€"many in their 20sâ€"reported radiation sickness and will file a lawsuit against Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), which operates the Fukushima Daiichi energy plant.

During the Fukushima Nuclear rescue efforts, sailors onboard the USS Ronald Reagan and apart of the battle group that responded to the disaster, were exposed to high levels of radioactive material while afloat off the East coast of Japan.

(TRN http://www.TurnerRadioNetwork.com ) â€" Crew members in their mid-20′s from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan are coming down with all sorts of radiation-related illnesses after being deployed less than 3 years ago to assist with earthquake rescue operations off the coast of Japan in 2011. It looks as though the onboard desalinization systems that take salt out of seawater to make it drinkable, were taking-in radioactive water from the ocean for the crew to drink, cook with and bath-in, before anyone realized there was a massive radiation spill into the ocean.

On behalf of US sailors, attorney Charles Bonner is filing a class action lawsuit against TEPCO, the owner of the Fukushima nuclear energy plant that erupted in 2011 when the earthquake and tsunami struck Japan. The following radio interview of Bonner, photos and excerpts are taken from Nuclear Hotseat and Energy News (ENE).

Charles Bonner, attorney representing sailors from the USS Ronald Reagan said “the crew members were not only going to the rescue by jumping into the water and rescuing people out of the water, but they were drinking desalinated sea water, bathing in it, until finally the captain of the USS Ronald Reagan alarmed people that they were encountering high levels of radiation.”

A sailor from the USS Ronald Reagan posted this comment on Reddit.

Reddit user TheBeneGesseritWitch said:

Just coming here to share this link. I was on another ship that was deployed in this, and my DCA and RADCON officer fought long and hard with our CO and upper chain of command regarding the Navy’s procedures to deal with entering radiated areas. Basically, they kept asking us to come up with a plan of action to allow us to continue to operate safely in a radiation cloud. DCA freaked out and was like, “THE PROCEDURE IS TO NOT DO IT! THE PROCEDURE IS TO AVOID THE CLOUD AND SEEK DEEP COVER! THE NAVY POLICIES ARE ALL TO NOT GO INTO THE MOTHERF!CKING CLOUD!” From a Damage Control view, we were completely under equipped and ill prepared to handle anything like this. We had a guy on “watch” sitting at the only authorized entrance to the weather decks with a little radiac device and they were scanning all the flight deck personnel and another one for our well deck…..They scannedâ€"and still scan regularlyâ€"the ship to note areas of radiation contamination, but there’s really nothing we could/can do to cope with it. I have no doubt that others from my ship will start showing similar symptoms.

What concerns me is that those of us who have transferred don’t have anything marked in our medical records. I’ve gone through two PHAs and had nothing asked about it.