Japan Just Let the Executives Who Oversaw the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster off the Hook
Japan Just Let the Executives Who Oversaw the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster off the HookYears after the disaster, there are ghost towns in the areas surrounding the plant.
By Alex Lubben VICE.com Sep 20 2019 “………..Three executives at the utility were accused of criminal negligence for failing to take adequate precautions to protect the plant from a tsunami. Despite knowing their plant might not withstand big waves, they left it as it was.
Now, years after the fact, all three of them are off the hook. A Japanese court found the head of the Tokyo Electric Power Co., Tsunehisa Katsumata, along with two other former executives not guilty of criminal professional negligence. The verdict means it’s unlikely anyone will be convicted on charges surrounding one of the worst nuclear disasters ever, one that prompted an international reckoning with the dangers of nuclear power plants…… the company’s own scientists, in the lead-up to the disaster, had warned that the plant was in a tsunami-prone area, and that the plant might not be adequately prepared to weather one, Reuters reported. ……. “This is only the beginning of a major battle,” Hiroyuki Kawai, a lawyer representing more than 5,700 Fukushima residents who fled after the meltdown, according to the Guardian. “Our ultimate goal is to eradicate dangerous nuclear plants that have thrown many residents into despair.”….. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb5333/japan-just-let-the-executives-who-oversaw-the-fukushima-nuclear-disaster-off-the-hook |
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