Tap Water Radiation

• Japan tries to ease fears about safety of its tap water

  The Japanese authorities are considering a plan to import bottled water from overseas, a government official said Thursday morning, a day after spreading contamination from a crippled nuclear plant led to a panicked rush to buy water in Tokyo. Yukio Edano, the chief cabinet secretary, indicated at a news conference that importing water was among th...

• Anxiety in Japan over radiation in tap water

  Workers doled out bottled water to Tokyo families on Thursday after residents cleared store shelves because of warnings that radiation from Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear plant had seeped into the city's water supply.Anxiety over food and water supplies surged when Tokyo officials reported Wednesday that radioactive iodine in the city's tap water ...