Fukushima beach now open for swimming

Updated July 21 2019 - 12:28pm, first published 12:24pm
A beach in Fukushima Prefecture has opened for the first time since the 2011 nuclear disaster.
A beach in Fukushima Prefecture has opened for the first time since the 2011 nuclear disaster.

Children splashed in the water and surfers caught waves near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant as a beach finally opened to them for the first time since the 2011 nuclear disaster.

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