TOKYO, April 28 (Xinhua) -- The Japanese government's hasty decision to discharge the contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant was not only a breach of its commitment, but would also be doomed to fail, a Japanese expert has said.
Kenichi Oshima, chairman of Japan's Citizens' Commission on Nuclear Energy, strongly opposed the Japanese government's move in recent local media reports.
Oshima pointed out that the decision was completely unconvincing that only the Japanese government and the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company, known as TEPCO, deemed it "unproblematic" to discharge the contaminated water.
The expert said the water contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear accident is completely different from the cooling wastewater of normal nuclear power plants.