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Despite the concerns of local residents, the Japanese government is pushing to open fishing ports and beaches that were closed after the Fukushima nuclear accident. The possibility of ocean discharge of nuclear contaminated water is raised, so there is more anxiety.

Reporter Kim Kwan-jin visited Fukushima.

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Fukushima Prefecture's Onahama fishing port was cut off after the nuclear accident in 2011. There are a total of 10 fishing ports in Fukushima including Onahama fishing port.

All of them opened last month and are currently in a trial operation. When they pick up the seafood, the inspection station over there checks the radiation levels.

The inspection center classifies fish by type to measure radioactivity.

The Kitazumi Beach, just 27 km from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, was reopened nine years after it was closed.

It is the first of the beaches within 30km from the nuclear power plant.

Ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, the Japanese government has reopened 30 of the 69 beaches in Fukushima, Iwate and Miyagi prefectures.

But in recent years, concerns over the community have increased as more than one million tonnes of nuclear contaminants have been discharged into the sea.

[Kawata Matsumi / Okuma Regional Clinic: (Never know the side effects of contaminated water from nuclear power plants) In the present situation, you must never discharge. (Residents) Everybody thinks so. I just can't say it.]

It has also been pointed out that TEPCO is distorting seawater radioactive material spills.

[Professor Michiko Aoyama / Tsukuba University: It was 2000 Gigabekrel and 1000 Gigabekrel, not 43 Gigabekrel (GBq) and 33 Gigabekrel. There's a leak that's leaking in addition to the drainage channel.

The analysis that the damage in Korea would be great was common.

[Professor, Michio Aoyama / Tsukuba University: If Tokyo Electric Power releases the contaminated water into the sea in winter, 2% of it will flow to the East Sea.]

At the government level, Japan has consistently responded in a dual manner, avoiding answers to the final treatment plan for polluted water and urging seawater discharge through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.