Not so far fetched, did you see this article?
http://nypost.com/2013/12/22/70-navy-sailors-left-sickened-by-radiation-after-japan-rescue/
Pet peeve of mine, sorry. Just because someone claims something in a lawsuit, and a newspaper reports it, doesn’t make it fact.
I would take that article with grain of salt or two.
The amount of exposure necessary to make someone ill is an acute dose something greater than 25 Rem. I sincerely doubt that only a small group of sailors could get that without the entire or majority of the ship being affected also.
Cancer? That is a Looooooong developing disease. Years. Something sounds more hysterical than anything else.
Yeah, but has Cynthia Papermaster been eating fish from off shore Japan or standing in rain form Japan? she is in California, land of fruits and nuts.
Remember the panic in Cali when people started buying up all potassium iodide supliments when they heard that they MIGHT get a dose of radioactivity from Japan?
I had to set down with my hypocondriact sister-in-law (in Arkansas)and explain why we did not need to start taking this suppliment unless there was actual radiation in the area, and how the supliment worked.