Nearly 80 U.S. sailors are seeking $1 billion from the Tokyo utility that operates the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, alleging the company lied about the high level of radiation in the area where they were carrying out a humanitarian mission after a tsunami that touched off a nuclear crisis three years ago.
A lawsuit filed in federal court in San Diego contends that Tokyo Electric Power repeatedly said there was no danger to the crew when they were actually being blanketed with radiation that has since led to dozens of cancer cases and a child being born with birth defects, the Orange County Registerreported Monday.
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5 comments:
They won't honor a US based lawsuit.
They are idiots. I mean seriously. The navy didnt think to do their own testing?
This is so laughable. Do you really think Tokyo Electric Power representative will pay for this if the people win.
Exactly 2:27-The US has it's citizens believing that lawsuits are a normal way of life with universal acceptance.Loser pays would fix everything.
How about contamination to the Pacific Ocean and west coast of the US, you don't suppose our government is covering up and lying also? Remember the moral of the story as posted by 7:05. The people in N. Californa, Oregon and Washington better do a little testing of their own.
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