San Diego sailor angered over Japan radiation exposure

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12. USS Reagan

That carrier is nuclear powered. They have a department that operates and maintains the nuclear power plant, and a division in that department that performs radiation surveys. You can bet that they were continuously doing air samples for radioactive contamination, smears for surface contamination and radiation surveys for dose rates. And i'll bet that information was shared with many government and nuclear industry personnel that were tracking the plume. In fact much of that information was available online, in real time, during the event.

If they used seawater for decontamination I suspect that the carrier went out of the plume and the water was below the lower level of detection of the instruments used by the ships personnel.

Although I think this lawsuit is frivolous, I wonder if the ships command spent much time communicating what the hazards were and what they were doing to mitigate and monitor. The person who is mentioned in the article was a Aviation Bosum's Mate, not one of the rates that would get much training in radiation or contamination.