After Shocks

17 in US Navy treated for contamination

WASHINGTON: American Navy officials in Japan said Monday that 17 military personnel who had been aboard three helicopters assisting in the relief effort had been exposed to low levels of contamination. Jeff Davis,a spokesman for the US Seventh Fleet in Japan,said the Navy personnel,who apparently had flown through a radioactive plume from a damaged nuclear power plant,had been ordered to dispose of their uniforms and undergo a decontamination scrub that had successfully removed radioactive particles. They received very,very low levels of contamination, Davis said. It certainly is not cause for alarm.

US carrier got soaked in radioactive radiation

WASHINGTON: The US has moved some of its 7th Fleet warships and aircraft from the quake-hit Japanese nuclear power plant after the crew of the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan received a months worth of radiation in about an hour. A spokesman of the Fleet said the warships had received alarms of low level radioactive contamination from smoke and steam released from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. Earlier,the New York Times quoting officials,said the carrier bringing aid to Japan had sailed into a radioactive cloud emitted after an explosion at the nuclear plant.