Tokyo After the Tsunami: Bottled Water, Radiation and a Nervous Public
November 12, 2014 : Tokyo, Japan : BWW
:
"Although
immediate
and
long-term
health
risks
of
nuclear
accidents
are
often
exaggerated,
social,
psychological
and
economic
consequences
are
obviously
enormous,"
wrote
Bloomberg
News
after
the
Japan
earthquake
and
tsunami.
One
of
the
psychological
issues
many
Japanese
faced
was
the
safety
of
their
water.
Did
bottled
water
help
allay
those
fears?
Radiation
spikes
detected
following
the
Fukushima
accident
in
Japan
in
2011
caused
concern
and
sometimes
panic
in
the
Tokyo
water
supply.
One
day
a
higher-than-permissible
level
of
iodine-131
was
detected
in
the
drinking
water
in
Tokyo.
Residents
immediately
cleared
store
shelves
of
bottled
water
after
Tokyo
Governor
Shintaro
Ishihara
said
levels
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