In March of 2011, the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan rushed to Japan to help after the disastrous tsunami. Since then, many sailors from that ship have fallen ill, possibly as a result of exposure to radiation from the Fukushima nuclear meltdown. They will soon have their day in court.
MAKHIJANI: Well, I think there's no call--you know, it's not a panic type of situation. So if there are people who are panicking and talking about evacuations and so on on the west coast, I think that that is out of proportion. But at the same time, there is a real cause for concern because, as we know, there are hundred of tons of radioactive water that are flowing into the ocean every day.
Scientists Warn of Extreme Risk November 8, 2013 by WashingtonsBlog Wahington"... the greatest short-term threat to humanity is from the fuel pools at Fukushima." Experts around the world have warned … that the fuel pool is in a precarious state – vulnerable to collapsing in another big earthquake. Yale University professor Charles Perrow wrote about the number 4 fuel pool this year in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. “This has me very scared,” he told the ABC. “Tokyo would have to be evacuated because [the] caesium and other poisons that are there will spread very rapidly.
Posibilities: 1) 89 tonnes of MOX in the spent fuel storage pond would melt down becoz of water loss; 2) the reactor 'corium' has reached groundwater; 3) rainwater on hot fragments