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Linda Pentz Gunter

Linda Pentz Gunter is the international specialist at Beyond Nuclear. She also serves as director of media and development.

Fukushima Fallout: the Irradiated Sailors of the USS Ronald Reagan

American sailors on the USS Ronald Reagan were exposed to radiation from Fukushima. Many are sick. Some have died. Why can’t they get justice?

March 7th, 2018
Linda Pentz Gunter
March 7th, 2018
By Linda Pentz Gunter
U.S. Navy crew members mop up the flight deck to remove radioactive contamination from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN76), March 23, 2011 in the Pacific Ocean off the Japanese coast after 10 days of rescue missions to transport supplies to survivors in an earthquake- and tsunami-devastated area. (AP/Eugene Hoshiko)

Coverage of the USS Ronald Reagan has been astoundingly limited, wrote Der Spiegel in a February 2015 story. Since then, nothing much has changed. The German magazine was referring to the saga of the American Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier whose crew pitched in to help victims of the March 11, 2011 Tsunami and earthquake in Japan,

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