SAN DIEGO —
Eight crew members of the USS Ronald Reagan are suing the Japanese
government and Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) for lying to them about
the radiation levels to which they were exposed during rescue operations
near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant last year.In a suit filed in San Diego this week, lead plaintiff Lindsay R Cooper accused TEPCO of intentionally concealing the dangerous levels of radiation in the environment from U.S. Navy rescue crews working as part of “Operation Tomodachi” off the coast of the Tohoku region following the devastating series of earthquakes and tsunami that resulted in the nuclear disaster of March 11, 2011.
