Move forward s policy to reform the military and break up business monopolies which was the real reason behind the decision to block that party. to japan next where the government is expected to make a decision over the release of treated water from the fukushima nuclear plant into the sea shortly. since the disaster in 2011, the water has been stored in tanks, but they are now full. our reporter nicky schiller is in the newsroom with more. the fukushima nuclear disaster in march 2011 happened when the most powerful earthquake ever to strike japan triggered a tsunami. more than 18,000 people were killed. the plant itself was flooded, causing the radioactive leak. now, in the past 12 years, the treated water used to cool the reactors along with ground water and rain from the area has been stored in these 1000 steel tanks. the issue now is those tanks have reached capacity. indeed, they are holding 1.34 million tonnes of water.
For example, balsaid, books, and statues like this one in west virginia depict john henry as large and muscular, a paul bunyan type, but the real guy was described as a small man, perfectly sized for tunnel work. and the machine that he battled, the steam drill, took his life with chemicals, not by noble exhaustion. and did the same to many of the black laborers who were forced to hand drill holes deep into solid rock in order to set explosives to cut into the mountains. their inhalation of dust and chemicals, the exposure to disease, that gets left out. we don t learn about the chinese migrants who laid the tracks of the transcontinental railroad either. but we do know about the railroad tycoons who emerged in the gilded age. theodore roosevelt sought to end business monopolies like theirs, going after a railroad holding company that threatened to monopolize rail traffic across the western united states.