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Most Fukushima fishermen are tight-lipped but Haruo Ono can't keep his thoughts to himself on Japan's plans to release treated cooling water from the stricken nearby nuclear power plant into the Pacific from Thursday.It's all detrimental," Ono, who lost his brother in the 2011 tsunami that crippled the plant, told AFP. "Fishermen are 100 percent against," the 71-year-old said at his modest home in Shinchimachi, around 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of the nuclear plant in northeast Japan.

The release of wastewater from Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific will begin on Thursday, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced, despite opposition from fishermen and protests by China.

An aerial photo shows storage tanks that hold treated water at TEPCO's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant - Copyright JIJI Press/AFP STRHiroshi HIYAMAThe release of wastewater from Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific will begin on Thursday, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced, despite opposition from fishermen and protests by China. Japan […]

Japan will begin releasing water from the power plant 12 years after one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters, when an earthquake and tsunami killed around 18,000 people.

Plan to release treated but still radioactive water into the Pacific has drawn criticism from neighbours and fishermen.