Twelve years ago, the fears that gripped the already traumatized people of northeastern Japan were rooted in the danger of invisible, insidious radiation escaping from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Today, fears directly associated with the second-worst nuclear accident in history have largely dissipated as they have rebuilt their lives and livelihoods after the magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami of March 2011.
But when the Japanese government confirmed that it was…