Fuel Removal From Fukushima's Reactor 4 Threatens 'Apocalyptic' Scenario

[David Guyatt]

From The Slog:

FUKUSHIMA "BREAKING"…..75 US NAVY SAILORS HAVE CANCER AFTER BRIEF VISIT TO LEAKAGE SITE

BY JOHN WARD DECEMBER 18, 2013 FUKUSHIMA DISASTER FUKUSHIMA IS NOT ANOTHER NEEDLESS PANIC MURDER BY COVER-UP NOT A CONSPIRACY MYTH: A FACTUSS RONALD REAGAN
[B]MURDER BY COVER-UP[/B]

Nimitz class carrier USS Ronald Reagan

Veteran human rights lawyer Charles Bonner (left) has practiced law for 27 years, so by now he's pretty good at it. Mr Bonner has been the lead attorney in over sixty-five jury trials involving civil rights cases, police misconduct, child protection and a myriad other attempts to protect the vulnerable poor from the mendacious rich. Now he is leading a class action lawsuit against TEPCO, the regulator/owner of the Fukushima nuclear energy plant.
He's unlikely to lose it, because he represents 75 sailors who came down with a host of medical problems, including cancers and leukemias, all kinds of gynaecological problems, and tumors on the brain. These service men and women are mainly young people in their early to mid twenties, and no one in their family had ever any of these kinds of illnesses before. Just since Bonner took the case, another 21 sailors have begun to show the same dire symptoms….of radiation sickness.
Their common link? They were all serving on board USS Ronald Reagan during a brief visit to the waters around Fukushima three years ago. As the Ronald Reagan desalinates all its water from the sea for drinking, bathing and other cleaning purposes, all the sailors were multiply exposed to radiation from the Fukushima accident. Calmed by the bollocks being put out about how "harmless" the radiation leakage was, these 75 service men and women now face death.
I've just been to eighteen internet sites. I have verified who Bonner is, checked the case credentials ("Cooper et al v. Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc. et. al. case number 3:2013cv00773, filed with the United States District Court for the Southern District of California") and confirmed the case's existence with Bonner's law firm. This is not left-of-centre urban myth: this is the best indication so far, in my view, of just how serious the Fukushima disaster is going to be.
But not a single mainstream medium I can find within the US, UK or European mainstream has gone near it.
Al Jazzeera, Russia Today, and every eco-site you can find is crawling with the story. At first obviously that made me suspicious. I am always wary of any site with an agenda.
But this is not anti-Americanism gone mad. This is the Establishment in the dock, not the rogue sites.
The story is just beginning to leak into the more "respectable" questioning sites like silver doctors, which concluded yesterday:
Three days ago, The News Doctors published a story that drew some skepticism within social media. Unfortunately, the story is not an internet conspiracy theory. 51 US sailors are reportedly suffering from Fukushima-radiation related medial issues, and have filed suit in US District Court against TEPCO.
Upon further investigation, this is NOT a conspiracy, and appears to be the sort of story that needs to go through multiple rounds of "distribution" before the mainstream media is forced to cover the story.'
Yet the compainants being represented by Charles Bonner filed their case last April.
We should not be under any illusions: had this case come to light in China or Russia, the western media would be giving us daily 24/7 coverage and analysis of such serious, mass evidence of radioactive danger to human life.
The MSM loves to ridicule the blogosphere as consisting entirely of naive dupes and madcap amateurs. Well, I'd rather be an amateur investigator than a professional whore.
CP Snow said facts are sacred. They're also inconvenient. I prefer George Orwell's definition of being a good reporter:

"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations."
Still my hero after all these years