The controversy comes 11 years after a tsunami swept ashore in 2011 and caused one of the worst nuclear accidents in history — a meltdown in three of the four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant 200 miles north of Tokyo.
Another problem is piling up in hundreds of metal tanks on the site: they contain more than a million tons of contaminated water. "Piping water into the sea is an outrage," said Haruo Ono, who has been fishing the ocean off the coast of Fukushima all his life. Facility manager Kazuo Yamanaka said that even when the pipes and pumps are complete,"that doesn't mean we're allowed to start getting rid of the water."
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