Japan has a problem. A problem so big that it can no longer be contained—literally (Hint: It sits in these blue & white tanks). The decisions it makes in the coming months could affect the world’s largest ocean and millions of people. 🧵1/11 First, we need to look at what happened almost 12 years ago. A tsunami flooded #Fukushima’s Daiichi nuclear plant and knocked out its cooling systems. To keep the destroyed reactors from overheating, over a hundred tons of water gets pumped through them daily. 2/11