Justin Bieber’s Crew Afraid of Radiation / Wanted to Cancel Japan Tour
A few days ago, it looked like Justin Bieber’s upcoming Japan tour might be cancelled because his crew was refusing to travel to the country. Apparently they had fallen under the influence of sensational news reports about radiation:
Many crew members have flat out refused to go to Japan for two concerts later this month, because they’re afraid of the cancer risks from the recent nuclear disaster. They also fear another earthquake. Short story — they are refusing to go to Osaka for a May 17 concert and another concert two days later in Tokyo.
Today in Adelaide, Australia, an angry Scooter Braun — Justin’s manager — exploded at the crew … sources who were there tell TMZ.
Braun told the crew, “Man the f**k up and do the right thing by these kids.”
But during the meeting — the 3rd one in 4 days — members of the crew fired back that it wasn’t safe to go and Avril Lavigne and Slash had canceled their Japan concerts.
Yesterday, Bieber announced via Twitter that the Japan concerts will go ahead as planned:
E-Online has consulted a couple radiation experts about the radiation risks Bieber will be facing in Tokyo and Osaka. Both cities are very far from Fukushima and the dangers that Bieber’s crew fear are non-existent:
In Tokyo and other major cities, “the radiation exposure is no different from where it was a year ago,” says Dr. David Brenner, professor of radiation biophysics at the Center for Radiological Research at the Columbia University Medical Center. “There was an increase in radiation in March, but now it’s down to normal levels again.”
And that goes for water and air. As for food, “the government every day is modifying their list of what can be sold and where it can be sold, and contaminated food is not being sold. It’s being monitored pretty intensively.”
(Brenner recently gave the same reassuring talk—with plenty of backup data—to the folks at the Metropolitan Opera, who are heading out to Japan shortly.)
In fact, says Dr. Peter Caracappa, clinical assistant professor of nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute:
“They’d actually receive a lot more of a radiation dose on the flight to Japan because of exposure to cosmic rays. So if they decide to go to Amsterdam instead of Tokyo they have not saved themselves.
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