Posted on 08/25/2014 4:28:33 PM PDT by Theoria
$1bn lawsuit accuses Tepco of failing to avoid the accident and of lying about radiation levels that have caused health problems to themselves and their families stationed in Japan
The first time it occurred to James Jackson that there could be lasting damage from his US Navy service during Japan’s tsunami and nuclear disaster came when his eldest son, Darius, was diagnosed with leukaemia.
Darius, now 15, spent a month in hospital in early 2013, soon after his diagnosis. “I thought I was going to have to bury him,” Jackson recalled. The teenager who aspired to play college basketball now has a catheter in his chest and is too frail to run the length of the court.
Jackson, a navy information technologist, was stationed with his family at Yokosuka, Japan, when an earthquake and tsunami knocked out the cooling systems at the Fukushima nuclear plant in March 2011, causing a triple meltdown.
He acknowledges he can’t know for sure why Darius got leukaemia – but Jackson remains convinced there is a connection to the radiation escape from the Fukushima disaster and he blames the Japanese electric company, Tepco.
On 25 August, a district court judge in San Diego will decide whether the Jacksons – and around 110 other US navy sailors and marines – can proceed with a $1bn lawsuit that accuses Tepco of failing to avoid the accident and of lying about the levels of radiation from the stricken reactors, putting US personnel at risk.
“I don’t think the navy or the United States government would have let us stay there in the region. They would have gotten us out of there probably within the first 48, or 72 hours if they knew then what they know now,” Jackson said.
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Health impacts of Japan disaster relief (Fukushima/USS Reagan crew) **UPDATE**
He acknowledges he can’t know for sure why Darius got leukaemia – but Jackson remains convinced there is a connection to the radiation escape from the Fukushima disaster and he blames the Japanese electric company, Tepco.
The lawyers are just trying to extort some $$ from a deep-pockets company.
And you know this how? We’re you at the site or in japan testing levels of radiation or were you too busy arm chairing and complaining about Obama? Since you are so informed, you already know Leukemia is associated with radiation exposure and it is rare. It was the first known cancer found to be related after our little test in japan.
If he has no family history of cancer and suddenly his kid comes down with it, there may be a link. Rare cancers popping isn’t normal and almost always is related to environmental causes. We are seeing this play out in Texas with our arsenic and radiation contaminated ground water and cancer cells have been found in some areas.
Leukemia is not rare in any sense of the word.
And where in Texas would that be? I was born and raised here, have lived here most of my 52 years and am not aware of what you're talking about...
Were those just lying around some where?
But suing the Japanese government or a Japanese company? Doesn't sound kosher to me.
Ok. I’ll tell ya somethin’: You go to the 2nd link I posted the other day and read those reports.
If there is ANY merit to the illnesses of the sailors, then EVERYTHING we’ve been told about radiation is a lie.
Or do you trust without verifying regarding something you can’t see, smell or taste?
IMHO, those reports are a damning indictment of the propaganda about radiation and its effects on the population. Assuming, of course, that the sailors aren’t ‘making it all up’...
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