Thread: WHY IS'NT MSM REPORTING ON THE escalating DANGERS of Radiation, UPDATED

NBC News: Two Quakes Strike Fukushima — Kyodo: Quakes jolt Fukushima Prefecture

Published: February 8th, 2014 at 3:03 am ET By ENENews

NBC News, Feb. 8, 2014: Two Quakes Strike Near Fukushima as US Sailors Sue Over Cleanup — Two magnitude-5 earthquakes hit Friday off the coast of Japan’s Fukushima prefecture [...] The quakes — which the U.S. Geological Survey measured at magnitudes 5 and 5.1 — caused no notable damage [...]
Kyodo News, Feb. 8, 2014: M5.0, M4.8 quakes jolt Fukushima Pref. — A couple of earthquakes with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 and 4.8 shook Fukushima Prefecture Saturday morning [...] [one] registered intensity 4 on the Japanese seismic scale of 7 in Soma and Shinchi in the prefecture. [...] Later in the morning, another quake with the same intensity jolted Kawauchi in the prefecture at 11:34 a.m., the agency said. [The quakes] also shook surrounding areas of Fukushima, such as Miyagi, Tochigi and Ibaraki prefectures.
View USGS data and map for the M5.1 and M5.0 quakes here

http://enenews.com/nbc-news-two-quak...ima-prefecture

‘Extensive’ plume of Fukushima radiation almost due north of Honolulu in May 2013; Cesium of 8 Bq/m³ found — Japan Musicians: Very important for Hawaii to do tests; “The world should know what’s going on in the Pacific” (VIDEO)

Published: February 8th, 2014 at 4:10 pm ET By ENENews

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (CMER):
Date: May 14, 2013; Location: 30.0, -160.59 (600 miles north of Honolulu, HI)

• Depth: 45.75 [meters?]
  Cs137: 4.6 ± 0.1Bq/m³; Cs134: 2.7 ± 0.2Bq/m³
• Depth: 165 [meters?]
  Cs137: 4.9 ± 0.1 Bq/m³; Cs134: 3.1 ± 0.2 Bq/m³
• No surface measurement published
  

Buesseler, et al., March 2013: 134Cs and 137Cs levels between Japan and the Hawaiian Islands [...] The persistence of similar 134Cs activities in the same area detected 12 months apart may be an indication [...] releases from F1-NPP into the ocean continued over a longer period of time creating an extensive plume of radiation that continued moving through the study site for over 15 months.
Hawaii Public Television Channel 54 ‘Big Island Video News’, Feb. 6, 2014: The Japanese Folk music of Yumi Kikuchi and Gen Morita was one of the highlights of the 21st annual Waimea Cherry Blossom Festival. [...]
Yumi Kikuchi, musician: [...] After we moved here we started ‘Fukushima Kids Hawaii’ inviting children from Fukushima to Hawaii so that they can get a wonderful time here to be able to play outside. [...] There’s a bill in this legislation in Hawaii congress to monitor the radiation in the food and water and soil. It is very important so that our community and the children can stay healthy. We should know the accurate information everybody in the world should know what’s going on in the Pacific, and also to the rest of the world. Hawaii is in the middle of the Pacific and it’s very important for us to know the accurate information […] I want all the ‘keiki’ [Hawaiian for kids] to be healthy and happy. That’s why I’m playing today.
Watch Kikuchi speak during a recent performance here

http://enenews.com/extensive-plume-o...rt-data-we-wan

TV: Hawaii Senators introduce bill to require Fukushima radiation monitoring for at least next 5 years — Nuclear engineer concerned, wants to ensure people are safe — Official: “The fact we can detect it throws fear into individuals” (VIDEO)

Published: February 8th, 2014 at 12:15 pm ET By ENENews

KITV, Feb. 7, 2014 (Emphasis Added):

KITV: Hawaii lawmakers say they are still hearing from residents who fear some of the radiation will end up here in the islands.
Adrian Chang, retired nuclear engineer: I just want to make sure what we consume is going to be safe.
Catherine Cruz, reporter: Adrian Chang is a retired pearl harbor nuclear engineer. He turned out to support a bill calling for radiation testing and voiced his concerns before members of a joint health and environment committee. [...] testing happens quarterly on Oahu, Kauai and the Big Island.
Jeff Eckard, Indoor and Radiological Health Branch, Department of Health: We have equipment that is so sensitive so we can detect it as miniscule levels that is far, far below any public health concern. But the fact we can detect it throws fear into individuals [...]
Cruz: The state is also regularly testing our air, rain, milk and drinking water. And says levels of any radiation found in fish have been extremely low. [...]
Senator Josh Green: I had a difficult time finding it and the latest update was seven or eight months ago. [...]
Eckard: We are still at normal background radiation levels. We are considering posting the results because of the requests we have been getting from the public. [...]
Cruz: A similar bill introduced in the house was also heard today. The senate committee is to take a vote next week.

25 written testimonies were submitted — 25 support bill, ZERO are opposed. Read the testimonies here (pdf)

http://enenews.com/tv-hawaii-senator...ividuals-video

Fukushima Cesium-137 and West Coast Fishery: B.C. First Nations call for Radiation Tests

By John Gleeson
Global Research, February 08, 2014
coastreporter.net

Region: Canada


B.C.’s grand chief and First Nation leaders on the Sunshine Coast are supporting a call for Ottawa to “systematically and properly” study the full impact of Fukushima radiation on the West Coast fishery.
Radiation from the March 2011 nuclear accident arrived off the B.C. coast last year, Robin Brown, ocean sciences division manager with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), said Tuesday.
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This Department of Fisheries and Oceans map shows the surface water distribution of cesium-137 from Fukushima in 2012, when the main inventory of radioactivity had moved toward the central North Pacific. The plume is expected to shift almost entirely to North America’s west coast during the next five years. Fukushima radiation was detected in B.C. coastal waters in June 2013.
“According to our observations, the radiation from Fukushima was detected in B.C. coastal waters in June 2013. Barely detectable, but detectable,” Brown said.
Although the federal government tested food samples, including some domestic fish species, in 2011 and early 2012, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said Wednesday that “further testing of imported or domestic food products for the presence of radioactive material is not required.”
Last month, Tahlton Central Council president Annita McPhee wrote national Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, urging him to press Ottawa for action amid growing concerns by members of the Tahltan Nation in northwestern B.C.
“We cannot sit by and watch and wait to see what the full impacts of the Fukushima disaster will be on our salmon and our way of life,” McPhee wrote. “To date, we have not seen or heard of Canada taking this issue seriously and working in a real way to address it.”
The letter called on Atleo to “raise this issue at the highest levels of the federal government, and demand action.”
In an interview, McPhee said news reports about Fukushima have bred fear in her community.
“Some people are not eating their fish because they’re scared. Some people don’t want to feed it to their kids. We don’t want to get cancer. We already have lots of cancer up in our area. I mean, lots,” McPhee said.
“The Tahltan people have been very concerned about what’s going on. We get our fish from the Stikine River, but it comes from the Pacific Ocean,” she said. “As First Nations, we’ve got to come together and address this, force the government’s hand. We have a right to know if our fish is safe to eat.”
B.C. Grand Chief Stewart Phillip echoed that view, calling the federal government’s inaction “highly irresponsible.
“I think it’s certainly a legitimate concern,” Phillip said Monday. “Other jurisdictions — other countries — realize there is a very real potential for contamination. Unfortunately, Canada doesn’t seem to be taking any steps whatsoever to acknowledge this as a potential threat.”
Instead, Phillip noted, DFO has been downsized, representing “a significant disinvestment” in the West Coast fishery.
“It’s not only unacceptable, but it’s very negligent of the government of Canada,” he said.
On the Upper Sunshine Coast, Sliammon Chief Clint Williams said he fully backs McPhee’s call for testing and full disclosure.
“Our people really cherish salmon, it’s always been part of our culture, so we absolutely encourage that. We want to make sure our food is safe. And it’s not just salmon either – it’s clams, geoducks, sea urchins,” Williams said. “I’m sure those concerns are shared all up and down the coast here.”
Former shíshálh (Sechelt) Nation chief Calvin Craigan concurred, saying that any contamination of natural foods from the sea will affect coastal Native communities.
“If that’s going to happen in the long term, and it is, all First Nations have to get together and call for testing,” Craigan said.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/west-co...-tests/5367895

Radioactive Water Fukushima Daiichi’s Hidden Crises

from Fukushima Radiation Update PRO 1 week ago All Audiences

Radioactive Water Fukushima Daiichi’s Hidden Crises
NHK World News Documentary Fukushima Daiichi Crisis


In-depth look at the struggles of the brave men trying to stop the huge amounts of highly radioactive water flowing into the pacific ocean. They think the melted core is still in unit-1.


As one of the engineers says we don't know how we can stop the flow of contaminated water.
This documentary explores the men working in unit-1 reactor, exposing themselves to high doses of deadly radiation. When ask about units 2 & 3 they say we have no idea what’s going on in them because the radiation levels our so high they can’t go in them.


Speculation is the cores in units-2 & 3 have burned through the containment vessels and burned its way deep into the earth, If this theory is right there’s no chance to recover the molten corium.


After watching this documentary it's clear that this is a Global Crisis of Unparalleled Magnitude.

Video here:

http://vimeo.com/85595428

Originally Posted by April

Radioactive Water Fukushima Daiichi’s Hidden Crises

from Fukushima Radiation Update PRO 1 week ago All Audiences

Radioactive Water Fukushima Daiichi’s Hidden Crises
NHK World News Documentary Fukushima Daiichi Crisis


In-depth look at the struggles of the brave men trying to stop the huge amounts of highly radioactive water flowing into the pacific ocean. They think the melted core is still in unit-1.


As one of the engineers says we don't know how we can stop the flow of contaminated water.
This documentary explores the men working in unit-1 reactor, exposing themselves to high doses of deadly radiation. When ask about units 2 & 3 they say we have no idea what’s going on in them because the radiation levels our so high they can’t go in them.


Speculation is the cores in units-2 & 3 have burned through the containment vessels and burned its way deep into the earth, If this theory is right there’s no chance to recover the molten corium.


After watching this documentary it's clear that this is a Global Crisis of Unparalleled Magnitude.

Video here:

http://vimeo.com/85595428

Good link April..thanks never saw that one!!

You welcome Kathyet!

US Sailors Sick From Fukushima Radiation File New Suit Against Tokyo Electric Power

US Sailors Sick From Fukushima Radiation File New Suit Against Tokyo Electric Power

Citing a wide range of ailments from leukemia to blindness to birth defects, 79 American veterans of 2011’s earthquake/tsunami relief Operation Tomadachi (“Friendship”) have filed a new $1 billion class action lawsuit against Tokyo Electric Power.
Now docked in San Diego, the USS Reagan’s on-going safety has become a political hot potato. The $4.3 billion carrier is at the core of the U.S. Naval presence in the Pacific. Critics say it’s too radioactive to operate or to scrap, and that it should be sunk.
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 for “up to 70,000 U.S. citizens [who were] potentially affected by the radiation and will be able to join the class action suit.”
Now docked in San Diego, the USS Reagan’s on-going safety has become a political hot potato. The $4.3 billion carrier is at the core of the U.S. Naval presence in the Pacific. Critics say it’s too radioactive to operate or to scrap, and that it should be sunk, as were a number of U.S. ships contaminated by atmospheric Bomb tests in the South Pacific.
The re-filing comes as Tepco admits that it has underestimated certain radiation readings by a factor of five. And as eight more thyroid cancers have surfaced among children in the downwind region.Two new earthquakes have also struck near the Fukushima site.
The amended action was filed in federal court in San Diego on Feb. 6, which would have been Reagan’s 103rd birthday. It says Tepco failed to disclose that the $4.3 billion nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was being heavily dosed from three melt-downs and four explosions at the Fukushima site. The Reagan was as close as a mile offshore as the stricken reactors poured deadly clouds of radiation into the air and ocean beginning the day after the earthquake and tsunami. It also sailed through nuclear plumes for more than five hours while about 100 miles offshore. The USS Reagan (CVN-76) is 1,092 feet long and was commissioned on July 12, 2003. The flight deck covers 4.5 acres, carries 5,500 sailors and more than 80 aircraft.
Reagan crew members reported that in the middle of a snowstorm, a cloud of warm air enveloped them with a “metallic taste.” The reports parallel those from airmen who dropped the Bomb on Hiroshima, and from central Pennsylvanians downwind from Three Mile Island. Crew members drank and bathed in desalinated sea water that was heavily irradiated from Fukushima’s fallout.
As a group, the sailors comprise an especially young, healthy cross-section of people. Some also served on the amphibious assault ship Essex, missile cruiser Cowpens and several others.
The plaintiffs’ ailments parallel those of downwinders irradiated at Hiroshima/Nagasaki (1945), during atmospheric Bomb tests (1946-1963), and from the radiation releases at Three Mile Island (1979) and Chernobyl (1986). Among them are reproductive problems and “illnesses such as Leukemia, ulcers, gall bladder removals, brain cancer, testicular cancer, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, thyroid illnesses, stomach ailments and a host of other complaints unusual in such young adults.”
One 22-year-old sailor declared to the court that “Upon my return from Operation Tomodachi, I began losing my eyesight. I lost all vision in my left eye and most vision in my right eye. I am unable to read street signs and am no longer able to drive. Prior to Operation Tomodachi, I had 2/20 eyesight, wore no glasses and had no corrective surgery.” Additionally, he said, “I know of no family members who have had leukemia.”
Plaintiff “Baby A.G.” was born to a Reagan crew member on Oct. 15, 2011—seven months after the crew members exposure—with multiple birth defects.
The suit asks for at least $1 billion to “advance and pay all costs and expenses for each of the Plaintiffs for medical examination, medical monitoring and treatment by physicians,” as well as for more general damages.
Both Tepco and the Navy say not enough radiation was released from Fukushima to harm the sailors or their offspring. But neither can say exactly how much radiation that might have been or where it went. The Navy has discontinued a program that might have tracked the sailors’ health in the wake of their irradiation.
After its four days offshore from Fukushima the governments of Japan, South Korea and Guam refused the Reagan port entry because of its high radiation levels. The Navy has since exposed numerous sailors in a major decontamination effort whose results are unclear.
Now docked in San Diego, the Reagan’s on-going safety has become a political hot potato. The $6 billion carrier is at the core of the U.S. Naval presence in the Pacific. Critics say it’s too radioactive to operate or to scrap, and that it should be sunk, as were a number of U.S. ships contaminated by atmospheric Bomb tests in the South Pacific. There are also rumors the Navy is considering deploying the Reagan to a port in Japan, where protests would be almost certain.
Filed on Dec. 12, 2012, the initial suit involved just eight plaintiffs. It was amended to bring the total to 51.
That action was thrown out at the end of 2013 by federal Judge Janis S. Sammartino on jurisdictional grounds.
A January deadline for re-filing this second amended complaint was delayed as additional plaintiffs kept coming forward. Attorneys Paul Garner and Charles Bonner say still more are being processed.
The suit charges Tepco lied to the public—including Japan’s then Prime Minister Naoto Kan—about the accident’s radioactive impacts. Kan says Unit One melted within five hours of the earthquake, before U.S. fleet arrived. Such news is unwelcome to an industry with scores more reactors in earthquake zones worldwide.
The Plaintiffs say Tepco negligently leveled a natural seawall to cut water pumping expenses. The ensuing tsunami then poured over the site’s unprotected power supply, forcing desperate workers to scavenge car batteries from a nearby parking lot to fire up critical gauges. Tepco belatedly dispatched 11 power supply trucks that were immediately stuck in traffic.
Similar reports of fatal cost-cutting, mismanagement and the use and abuse of untrained personnel run throughout the 65-page complaint.
Attorney Bonner will explain much of it on the Solartopia Radio show at 5 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb. 11.
Some 4,000 supporters have signed petitions at nukefree.org, moveon.org, Avaaz and elsewhere.
Feb. 11—like the eleventh day of every month—will be a worldwide fast day for those supporting the victims of Fukushima’s deepening disaster.
The future of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, the nuclear power industry and a growing group young sailors tragically afflicted by Fukushima’s secret fallout will be hanging in the balance.

http://www.sotrueradio.org/index.php...ssages-daily-2

First Nations call for radiation tests

Effects on marine life from Fukushima fallout a concern

John Gleeson And Jeremy Shepherd / North Shore News
February 14, 2014 12:00 AM






B.C.'s grand chief and First Nation leaders on the Sunshine Coast are supporting a call for Ottawa to "systematically and properly" study the full impact of Fukushima radiation on the West Coast fishery.
Radiation from the March 2011 nuclear accident arrived off the B.C. coast last year, Robin Brown, ocean sciences division manager with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, said Feb. 4. "According to our observations, the radiation from Fukushima was detected in B.C. coastal waters in June 2013. Barely detectable, but detectable," Brown said.
Although the federal government tested food samples, including some domestic fish species, in 2011 and early 2012, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said last week (Feb. 5) that "further testing of imported or domestic food products for the presence of radioactive material is not required."
Last month, Tahlton Central Council president Annita McPhee wrote national Chief Shawn Ain-chut Atleo, urging him to press Ottawa for action amid growing concerns by members of the Tahltan Nation in northwestern B.C. "We cannot sit by and watch and wait to see what the full impacts of the Fukushima disaster will be on our salmon and our way of life," McPhee wrote. "To date, we have not seen or heard of Canada taking this issue seriously and working in a real way to address it."
The letter called on Atleo to "raise this issue at the highest levels of the federal government, and demand action."
In an interview, McPhee said news reports about Fukushima have bred fear in her community.
"Some people are not eating their fish because they're scared. Some people don't want to feed it to their kids. We don't want to get cancer. We already have lots of cancer up in our area. I mean, lots," McPhee said.
"The Tahltan people have been very concerned about what's going on. We get our fish from the Stikine River, but it comes from the Pacific Ocean," she said. "As First Nations, we've got to come together and address this, force the government's hand. We have a right to know if our fish is safe to eat."
B.C. Grand Chief Stewart Phillip echoed that view, calling the federal government's inaction "highly irresponsible.
"I think it's certainly a legitimate concern," Phillip said. "Other jurisdictions - other countries - realize there is a very real potential for contamination. Unfortunately, Canada doesn't seem to be taking any steps whatsoever to acknowledge this as a potential threat."
Instead, Phillip noted, DFO has been downsized, representing "a significant disinvestment" in the West Coast fishery.
"It's not only unacceptable, but it's very negligent of the government of Canada," he said.
For Tsleil-Waututh Nation member Rueben George, radiation concerns are just one more aggravating aspect in an increasingly threatened environment.
"I think overall it's been progressively worse and worse and worse, and that's just one of the destructive factors," he said.
Personally hesitant about eating fish from the region, George said questions about escalating cancer rates need to be addressed.
"Already there's so many questions that I think our society needs to know. At what level is it too dangerous?" he asked.
On the Upper Sunshine Coast, Sliammon Chief Clint Williams said he fully backs McPhee's call for testing and full disclosure.
"Our people really cherish salmon, it's always been part of our culture, so we absolutely encourage that. We want to make sure our food is safe. And it's not just salmon either - it's clams, geoducks, sea urchins," Williams said. "I'm sure those concerns are shared all up and down the coast here."
Former Shíshálh (Sechelt) Nation chief Calvin Craigan concurred, saying that any contamination of natural foods from the sea will affect coastal Native communities.
"If that's going to happen in the long term, and it is, all First Nations have to get together and call for testing," Craigan said.

http://www.nsnews.com/news/first-nat...tests-1.853745

US Navy sailors seek £600m damages from owners of Fukushima nuclear power plant

Nearly three years after the Fukushima disaster, more than 70 US Navy sailors who participated in rescue operations claim that radiation exposure has left them sickened for life


Lt Steven Simmons, a 36-year-old administration officer, told The Telegraph that he had fallen ill within months of returning to the US in September 2011



By Danielle Demetriou in Tokyo and Peter Foster in Washington



Dozens of American sailors who assisted Japan during the 2011 nuclear disaster are suing the operators of Fukushima power plant for more than £612 million (US$1bn) in damages, claiming that they have become sick from radiation exposure.

The sailors were on board the USS Ronald Reagan super-carrier when it was diverted to northeast Japan following the devastation of the March 11, 2011 earthquake which triggered a tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster.

As they helped rescue victims and evacuate disaster zones, the claimants allege that they drank, bathed and waded through water contaminated with radiation from the damaged nuclear power plant and were reportedly exposed to radioactive plumes.

A total of 79 named claimants - including sailors, support personnel and dependents - allege that over the past three years, they have suffered from serious health issues as a result of radiation exposure from the plant, ranging from an array of cancers such as leukemia to eye diseases and fertility problems.

The claimants include the two-year-old daughter of US sailor Kim Gieseking, 25, who was pregnant at the time of the Fukushima disaster and served as a boatswain’s mate on the flight deck.


The sailors, whose claim was submitted to San Diego District Court in California, are suing Tokyo Electric Power Plant (Tepco), operators of Fukushima nuclear power plant for negligence.

“These sailors were in radioactive plumes for more than five hours,” said Paul C Garner, a lawyer representing the sailors, who claims to have been contacted by more than 250 US navy personnel in relation to the case.
“They are suing Tepco for negligence in permitting escape of radiation from Fukushima nuclear power plant, strict liability, fraudulent concealment of true facts and a $1 billion medical fund plus compensation.”

Legal documents outlining their claims and submitted to the court stated: “Tepco was fully aware that the American responders would be exposed to hazardous levels of radiation, yet did not communicate this to the ships and to other responders.

“Tepco had a duty to inform any and all persons who were, or would soon be in the vicinity of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, of the radiological hazards created by the meltdowns which had occurred and were in progress.

Tepco breached this duty, negligently causing injuries, damages and harm to plaintiffs.”
The submitted claim is an amendment of an earlier legal action by a smaller group of US navy sailors involved in the Fukushima clean-up which was dismissed by a judge in San Diego in November last year on the grounds that court did not have jurisdiction.

The US government has vehemently denied that the sailors were exposed to levels of radiation that would negatively impact health during the Fukushima mission, and has published a full list of exposure details for each vessel involved.

“There is no indication that any U.S. Personnel supporting Operation Tomodachi experienced radiation exposure at levels associated with the occurrence of long-term health effects,” a US Navy spokesman told The Telegraph.

“All personnel were monitored, with very sensitive instruments. The worst case radiation exposure was less than 25 per cent of the annual radiation exposure that a member of the public gets from the sun, rocks or soil.”

However the affected sailors refuse to accept the Pentagon’s assurances and remain convinced that radiation exposure is to blame for a range of maladies, from cancers to over-active thyroid glands and prolonged menstrual bleeding.

Lt Steven Simmons, a 36-year-old administration officer, told The Telegraph that he had fallen ill within months of returning to the US in September 2011 from his deployment on the USS Reagan.
“I was perfectly healthy before that deployment. I was used to doing the P90-X extreme work out, I claimed the ’Stairway to Heaven’ in Hawaii but when I came back from the deployment my health started to decline.
“The Navy says they monitored everybody, but didn’t do internal or external monitoring of everyone, particularly not people below the flight deck,” he claimed, adding that at one point a message on the ship’s intercom said that ’contaminants’ had been sucked into the water system.

“There was an all-hands call on the intercom, but I was already up and had had breakfast and had drunk several glasses of water. I remember joking about it at the time. I never thought then I would get ill, even though some of my sailors were very worried and went to get checked out.”

Lt Simmons, who has three children, is now wheelchair bound despite doctors being unable to diagnose his condition despite carrying out a battery of tests for diseases including muscular dystrophy, Lou Gehrig’s disease and the tick-borne Lyme disease.

He is currently being treated and assessed by Navy doctors at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre in Maryland to decide whether to medically discharge him, although he admits that none have found any evidence of radiation-related illness.

“I’ve seen multiple doctors but they say that if it was radiation poisoning I would have been affected earlier; but you don’t have to be a nuclear engineer to know that radiation affects everyone in different ways.
“I don’t blame the Department of Defence or the Navy for what happened, but I believe that mistakes were made,” said the father of three.

“They [the Pentagon] have been sticking to this story for three years now, but we spent five hours sitting in a radioactive plume that came from the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. How can they really expect there was no harm to human life?” Japan’s embattled Tepco, which is currently facing a string of legal actions from Fukushima residents in relation to the alleged impact of the disaster on their homes and livelihoods, declined to comment on the details of the case.

However, the company said in a statement: “We are thankful to the United States for coming to the aid of the people of Japan, and appreciate the service of all the men and women of the United States military who provided our people with humanitarian and disaster relief in Operation Tomodachi.
“We withhold any comments on this lawsuit, and we will take appropriate measures in accordance with the judicial procedures in the United States.”

The case comes at a time of fevered speculation in North America in relation to the potential impact of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, despite repeated reassurances from governments and officials that there are no safety concerns.

There has been a flurry of media reports describing continued concerns in the region, such as Canadians stockpiling iodine tablets, local city governments passing resolutions for more testing of coastal seafood and a new study into the potential contamination of Californian kelp.

Scientists recently stated that seaborne radiation from the wrecked Fukushima power plant will wash up on the West Coast of the US at some point this year.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...wer-plant.html