http://www.dailypress.com/business/...ircraft-carrier-fukushima-20160726-story.html
''The Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries nearly $195 million to continue advance work toward the mid-life overhaul of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington.
The overhaul will be performed at HII's Newport News Shipbuilding division. The George Washington is currently at Naval Station Norfolk.
Among other work, the award establishes the labor
requirement for engineering "in support of Fukushima remediation," according to the contract language. The George Washington was based at Yokosuka naval base when the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plan, about 200 miles to the north.
The carrier headed to sea 10 days later when Navy officials noted elevated radiation levels in Yokosuka caused by winds blowing from the disaster site. The ship left even though it was undergoing maintenance at the time. It returned to Yokosuka April 19.''
This carrier headed to sea when elevated radiation levels were detected
200 miles away?
Hang on, wasn't there ''No Radiation leaks''.
Your thoughts? This Carrier was not deployed in ''Operation Tomodachi'' and yet received work ''in support of Fukushima remediation''?
I'm no Rhodes Scholar but sumfins not right!
Now the Navy detected radiation 200 mile away that obviously must have been of such a level as to compromise the Carrier USS George Washington and force them to sea. And that was after the USS R.R high-tailed it out of Fukushima because of all the ''not so harmful'' amounts they ''weren't'' exposed to?
Now ''Tidewaterbiz'' could be another tin-foil conspiracy rag but AFAIK it's a business orientated newsletter.
https://www.stripes.com/news/pacifi...-levels-cause-for-alarm-1.452991#.WLz_eVV97IU
http://www.military.com/daily-news/...-japan-still-contaminated-with-radiation.html
Plume of radiation
In the days after the tsunami hit the Fukushima complex, the plant suffered multiple explosions and reactors began to melt down.
Officials from the NRC told Congress that extremely high levels of radiation were being emitted from the impaired plant. Japanese nuclear experts said winds forced a radioactive plume out to sea, and efforts to keep fuel rods cool using sea water caused tons of radiated water to be dumped into the ocean.
The Reagan was dispatched to take part in relief efforts, arriving the next day. Navy officials say the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered supercarrier stayed at least 100 nautical miles away from the damaged plant, but many sailors have disputed the Navy's accounting, saying they were so close that they could see the plant.
The Navy has acknowledged that the Reagan passed through a plume of radiation. Navy images showed sailors with their faces covered, scrubbing the deck of the Reagan with soap and water as a precautionary measure afterward. The Reagan and sailors stayed off the coast of Japan for several weeks to aid their Japanese allies.
The multibillion-dollar ship, projected to last at least 50 years after its launch in 2001, then was taken offline for more than a year for "deep maintenance and modernization" at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington, according to Navy officials.
"Procedures were in place to survey, control and remove any low-level residual contamination," the Navy said. "Personnel working on potentially contaminated systems were monitored with sensitive dosimeters, and no abnormal radiation exposures were identified."
Upgrades and cleaning also took place at the ship's next stop in San Diego.
Sailors who performed the work said it entailed entering spaces deep within the ship, testing for high levels of radiation,
and if it was found, sanding, priming and painting the areas. They say there were given little to no protective gear, a claim that the Navy denies.
Of the 1,360 individuals aboard the Reagan who were monitored by the Navy following the incident, more than 96 percent were found not to have detectable internal contamination, the Navy said. The highest measured dose was less than 10 percent of the average annual exposure to someone living in the United States.''
''and if it was found''. Could you deduce from that description, that high levels of radiation were indeed present before remediation?
My objective in posting this tosh is to enlighten readers to the possibility that TEPCO and now others have probably ''massaged'' the facts. Once they are exposed for the BSing crap artists they are, then perhaps people will question just how well TEPCO are progressing now.
I have serious concerns on the state of the PCV of all 3 Units further exacerbated by the abysmal failure of Scorpion and subsequent deathly silence from TEPCO.
