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Our reporter flies to Fukushima, Japan, and continues to address safety issues. Yesterday (24th), I was informed that the Japanese government was doing some sort of manipulation to clean only the area around the meter to make it appear as if the radiation levels had dropped. But the sea situation is not easy. It is safe to say that we will catch fish again, open the beach, and spill the polluted water from the nuclear power plant into the sea.

Reporter Kim Kwan-jin came from the local area.

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Onahama Fishing Port in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, where fishing boats were cut off after the 2011 nuclear accident.

There are a total of 10 fishing ports in Fukushima including Onahama fishing port. All opened last month and are now undergoing trials. If you pick up the seafood, the inspection station over there will check the radiation levels.

The laboratories classify production by type and 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.

However, the recent anxiety in the community has increased as the possibility of ocean discharge of more than one million tons of contaminated water is raised.

[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 Tokyo Electric Power is distorting the amount of radioactive materials that are spilled into the seawater.

[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 drains.

The analysis that the damage in Korea was significant was common.

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

At the government level, Japan has consistently responded with a dual attitude, evading the final treatment of contaminated water and urging seawater discharge through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

(Video coverage: Jeon Bae Bae, Video editing: Kim Ho Jin)