U.S. Navy Sailor: Our digital watches stopped working when offshore Fukushima after 3/11 - "We were

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U.S. Navy Sailor: Our digital watches stopped working when offshore Fukushima after 3/11 — “We were laughing at first, but then…”

Title: A Lasting Legacy of the Fukushima Rescue Mission, Part 4: Living With the Aftermath
Source: Huffington Post
Author: Roger Witherspoon
Date: March 18, 2013 at 11:09 a ET

(... The USS Ronald) Reagan’s crew had been assured that there was no radiation to worry about over the open ocean and, as the ship’s navigator, (Maurice Enis) had been led to believe that the radiation was a distinct plume that they could avoid. It was now apparent that the radiation cloud was everywhere, and avoiding it would not always be possible.

On the quarter mile long deck there was another alarming note.

“I had a digital watch,” said quartermaster Jaime Plym, “and it suddenly stopped working. Somebody made a crack that radiation would do that. There were five or six of us on deck and everyone looked at their watches — and all the digital watches had stopped. There was one that was real expensive, and it wasn’t working either.

“We were laughing at first. But then that petered out and we just sort of looked at each other because it wasn’t funny anymore.” (...)

See also: Navy Sailors After Fukushima: They’ve got leukemia, testicular cancer, growths… They’ve had surgery to remove brain lesions and lost sight in eye (VIDEO)]

10 comments

[leftyohiolib]

1. radiation poisoning rvcd in the line of duty- and when they come back the republicans will call them

takers

[cantbeserious]

2. Mission Accomplished - More Servicemen Sent To Their Deaths

eom

[RC]

3. Bullshit!

Why just the sailors watches and not the officers? Why just digital watches? Why not other electronics on the ship. Or other electronics the sailors might have on them? Like maybe their iPods?
This is nothing more than fear mongering.
Liquid sand paper that was use to scrub the hull? Get real. If there actually is such a thing, that is a dry dock operation and it is doubtful the ship would have anything like that on board. It is used for sand blasting.
Soap and water in a shower, with a brush would be more efficient. Rinse off in a sink?

[DetlefK]

4. If a radioactive dose is strong enough to ruin unshielded electronics, it's also strong enough to...

...give you skin-cancer, as a rule of thumb. (Pieced that together from various stats about radiation a while ago.)

Of course ruined electronics are just an indicator for the minimum-amount of radioactivity you've been subjected to.