Gregg Levine, “7 Years on, Sailors Exposed to Fukushima Radiation Seek Their Day in Court”

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Medicare Might Be Gone By Next Thanksgiving
What You Need To Know: Field Guide To The Democracy Movement
ARE THE DEMOCRATS OVERREACHING ON RUSSIA?
Gregg Levine, “7 Years on, Sailors Exposed to Fukushima Radiation Seek Their Day in Court”
Wendell Potter: “Democrats On The Take” fight Medicare For All
Vandana Shiva, CREATIVE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
The Fracking Ban Law
Could A “Weapon of Mass Connection” win Georgia for the Dems?

NOAA map showing ocean radiation from Fukushima

Sunday, March 11, marked the seventh anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami — seven years for a group of US Navy sailors to get sick and some to die as a result of their exposure to radiation coming from the Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant that was devastated by the tsunami. They were part of a rescue mission to that plant in the days following the tsunami.

Journalist Gregg Levine has written an investigative piece for the Nation MagazineÂ titled “7 Years on, Sailors Exposed to Fukushima Radiation Seek Their Day in Court.”Â Writer’s Voice host Francesca Rheannon spoke with Levine on March 12, 2018.

Writer's Voice

Talking to writers about matters that move us

Gregg Levine, “7 Years on, Sailors Exposed to Fukushima Radiation Seek Their Day in Court”