It will be 10 years tomorrow (11th) after the Great East Japan Earthquake that led to the nuclear explosion. In Fukushima, where there was an earthquake, uneasy days continue amid anger that nothing has been properly resolved so far.
Correspondent Yoo Seong-jae covered the Fukushima area.
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11 March 2011, 2:46pm.
Following the 9.1 earthquake, a tsunami over 20m in height occurred.
[빨리! 빨리!]
It led to the explosion of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Only 18,000 people died and disappeared.
However, Fukushima’s nightmare is still ongoing, 10 years later.
Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, 50 km south of the accident nuclear power plant.
Operation has resumed since last year, but distribution was stopped because radioactive cesium, which was five times the standard value, was detected in the recently caught wooruk.
[후쿠시마 어민 : 아직 후쿠시마는 안된다, 일본의 우럭은 못쓴다. 이런 말들이 제일 힘듭니다.]
To make matters worse, the Japanese government has established a policy of discharging contaminated water from nuclear power plants into the sea.
In Fukushima, criticisms are high that the government is only taking time as an excuse for fishermen even when the government has concluded that it is ocean discharge.
The number of contaminated water tanks at the site of the Fukushima nuclear power plant is about 1,000, reaching 1.24 million tons.
The Japanese government claims that there is no place to store more polluted water, which increases by 140 tons a day by the end of next year.
Civic groups warn that the ocean discharge of contaminated water will be an irreversible catastrophe.
[고마츠/현지 활동가 ‘우미라보’ 대표 : 폐로가 될 때까지 오염수는 계속 나옵니다. 거기에는 삼중수소가 포함돼 있죠. 이 오염수를 20~30년 동안 흘려버린다는 겁니다.]
The Japanese government is repeating the claim that if contaminated water is diluted and thrown in the sea, it will not affect the environment.
(Video coverage: Han Cheol-min, Video editing: Kim Ho-jin)