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French authorities have received a software update from Apple for its iPhone 12 and are reviewing it as a fix for a radiation issue, a source at the French digital ministry told Reuters on Tuesday.
Gdp. there's another concern, tourism. delta is temporarily cutting flights to japan because the demand isn't there. bookings have dropped significantly since the earthquake and tsunami. the ripple effect is huge. from airlines to hotel chains to restaurants and businesses that count on tourism, the price is costly. >> it's a significant amount of money, and a lot of that is going to go away because of what we're seeing, people will not travel to japan at this point in time, until the radiation issue is sorted through, and people understand what the real threat is today. i think once that gets...
Is there topic a for them? any sense when their lives may get back to normal? >> okay. up north i have not heard one person mention the radiation issue. >> huh. >> part of that -- yeah. part of that is because i was speaking to survivors of the tsunami who lost family members. so everyone feels grateful to be alive. secondly, the wind is going in the other direction. it's going out to sea. and then, thirdly, remember, that the problem is localized. right? we cannot be hysterical about this. it is a very severe and damaging problem, but it's a localized problem. it is not a global or, you know,...
Suzanne, i'd like to also add that the radiation issue is uniquely important issue in the japanese collective memory. please remember that hiroshima, nagasaki were terrible tragedies that occurred to the japanese people. many of those grandparents, if you will, are still engrained in these families, and so the fear of radiation has to be playing on the minds of the children and grandchildren of those individuals who experienced this back many years ago. i think that will add further to the trauma, as well as the fact that a great many of people have lost loved ones in this tragedy. so we have ...
Of the interviews that people do is this element of distrust, not sure who to believe, not sure if they're telling us everything, is the company telling the truth at daiichi. is the government telling the truth and so on. we would have the same problem here. it is a common, common problem. >> with the radiation issue specifically, and i want to ask you about this because we covered it so intently. we covered at the top of the show what really happened at three mile and chernobyl to make it more real and less abstract. do you think we have a concept of what nuclear disasters mean in terms of hu...