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The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday acquitted three former Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) executives, discovering them not responsible of manslaughter over the 2011 triple reactor meltdown at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Japan’s public broadcaster NHK reported Wednesday.
The High Court’s ruling was a choice on an enchantment towards a 2019 judgment by the Tokyo district court docket that discovered former Tepco chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata and former government vice presidents Ichiro Takekuro and Sakae Muto weren’t responsible {of professional} negligence on the grounds they may not have foreseen the tsunami that wrecked the plant.
On March 11, 2011, an earthquake off Japan’s northeastern coast triggered the tsunami that flooded the plant’s reactors, inflicting the worst nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl and forcing a whole bunch of hundreds of individuals to flee their properties.
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2023-01-18 01:17:36 Fukushima nuclear meltdown: Tokyo High court docket acquits three former TEPCO executives, NHK reviews
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