TOKYO — A Tokyo court on Wednesday bought 4 previous executives of the energy operating the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant to pay 13 trillion yen ($94 billion) to the business, holding them accountable for the 2011 catastrophe.
In the carefully seen ruling, the Tokyo District Court stated the previous chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Tsunehisa Katsumata, and 3 other previous executives stoppedworking to satisfy their responsibility to execute the utmost security safetymeasures inspiteof understanding the threats of a severe mishap in case of a significant tsunami. It stated they might have avoided the catastrophe if they hadactually taken offered clinical information more seriously and acted quicker.
A magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami damaged secret cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, triggering 3 reactors to melt down, dispersing enormous quantities of radiation in the location and avoiding 10s of thousands of homeowners from returning house due to contamination and security issues.
A group of 48 TEPCO investors submitted the fit in 2012 requiring that Katsumata and 4 others — previous TEPCO Phomeowner Masataka Shimizu, previous Vice Presidents Sakae Muto and Ichiro Takekuro, and another executive, Akio Komori, pay 22 trillion yen ($160 billion) in damages to the business to