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$Fukushima Dai-ichi plant chief Takeshi Takahashi (L) holds an answer and question session during a press tour of the Japanese nuclear plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima prefecture on June 12, 2013. Nuclear power has been a sensitive issue in Japan since a quake and tsunami wiped out the Fukushima atomic plant in 2011, sparking the world\'s worst nuclear disaster in 25 years and contaminating the environment.$

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$<strong>Tokyo:</strong> Fukushima prefecture (state) has opened its first beach to swimmers since last year\'s nuclear disaster after judging the water to be safe. About 1,000 people on Monday descended on Nakoso beach, about 65 kilometers (40 miles) south of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, where three reactors melted down after the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. [caption id=attachment_379900 align=alignleft width=380$

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$Tokyo: Fukushima prefecture (state) has opened its first beach to swimmers since last year\'s nuclear disaster after judging the water to be safe. About 1,000 people on Monday descended on Nakoso beach, about 65 kilometers (40 miles) south of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, where three reactors melted down after the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.$

Fukushima Dai-ichi plant chief Takeshi Takahashi (L) holds an answer and question session during a press tour of the Japanese nuclear plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima prefecture on June 12, 2013. Nuclear power has been a sensitive issue in Japan since a quake and tsunami wiped out the Fukushima atomic plant in 2011, sparking the world's worst nuclear disaster in 25 years and contaminating the environment.