San Diego sailor angered over Japan radiation exposure [View all]
Source: KGTV
A San Diego sailor says she is suing Japan and the Tokyo Electric Power Company for radiation exposure.
Lindsay Cooper, 23, was stationed aboard the USS Ronald Reagan when it was sent to aid those in Japan affected by a devastating tsunami last year.
The world watched in awe as plumes from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant hung in the air last March. The same plumes which sent radioactive debris onto the Ronald Reagan, with roughly 5,500 sailors on board.
“The debris and the teddy bears and the pictures that you saw in the water, that was real,” Cooper told 10News. “The radiation … we couldn’t see that. We could only trust what our command was telling us.”
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Read more: http://www.10news.com/news/san-diego-sailor-angered-over-japan-radiation-exposure12292012
Video news story interviews Lindsey Cooper and Paul Garner.
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