US sailors prepare for fresh legal challenge over Fukushima radiation
20 Aug 2014 On 25 August, a district court judge in San Diego will decide whether 110 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. Some 77,000 US navy sailors and marines took part in the huge relief effort after Japan’s cascading disasters, called Operation Tomodachi, or friend. The 110 sailors suing Tepco represent only a small fraction of that number, and the lawsuit does not have the support of the US navy establishment.
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