Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis on Chinese and Media Intervention

Abstract

The Fukushima nuclear crisis refers to the public emergency triggered by the nuclear power plant atomic leakage in Japan in March 2011 in Fukushima. Nuclear radiation has the features of extensive, invisibility, long-term hazardous, and irreversible. It caused individuals and groups physiological, psychological and behavioral responses, resulting in panic, rumors, unconventional social assembly, etc. The nuclear crisis also triggered salt panic in China. It destroyed the regular social order seriously. Studying the impact of the emergency on public psychology will be helpful for the media to intervene in the general mentality rationally to maintain social development harmoniously.