Radioactive contamination of Japanese beaches may deter swimmers during summer tourist season

No Nukes on the Beach! Thanks to the Supertubes Surfing Foundation, Jeffreys Bay, South Africa for the wonderful image, used as a logo for Radioactive Waste Action Day organizing several months ago!NHK World of Japan reports that officials of Ibaraki Prefecture, south of the catastrophically leaking Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, have begun radiation monitoring on 17 beaches. They hope to quell the fears of swimmers, surfers, and other visitors ahead of the vital summer tourist season. It has long been known that "radioactive stigma effect" -- not only after catastrophes, but even after smaller accidents or even during "routine" nuclear activities -- can harm other economic sectors, especially ones like agriculture and tourism, over entire regions. Clean, safe, and ever more reliable and cost effective wind turbines, on the other hand, have been shown to attract tourists!