Japan’s top courtyard supports ex-tepco-lider’s purchases on negligence on Fukushima nuclear crisis

Japan’s top courty Fukushima Daiichi The disaster of the nuclear power plant and the subsequent deaths of the dozens of ages during forced evacuation.

The Supreme Court, which maintained the previous decisions of the lower court that paid the three top officials of the Tokyo Electricity Company, said that one tsunami From the size that hit the plant was unforeseen and the directors could not be held responsible for negligence.

The decision rejected an appeal by the criminal prosecution that sought their criminal responsibility, and the payment of two directors – Sakae Muto and Ichiro Takekuro – is now final. The accusations against a third executive, former president of TEPCO, Tsunehisa Katsumata, was abandoned behind His death in October.

The case was the only criminal trial related to the nuclear accident, in which an earthquake with magnitude 9.0 and massively tsunami hit the plant, destroying its cooling systems and causing three reactors. A large amount of radiation was released into the surrounding soil and the sea, causing tens of thousands of residents to lose their homes, jobs and community connections.

The defendants were accused by a civil prosecution group after the public prosecutors gave up the case. The civil pursuit part that included Fukushima residents claimed that TEPCO could have prevented the disaster if the factory installed sufficient safety measures before Tsunami, based on a long -term tsunami evaluation provided by experts.

Ruiko Muto, who led the criminal prosecution part, called the decision that came out just a few days before the 14th anniversary of the “cold blood” accident and one that steps on the victims of the nuclear disaster.

The court stated that the directors are not guilty of provoking the deaths of 44 elderly patients whose already low health has been damaged during or after forced evictions from a local hospital and an elderly house.

The decision said that the long-term projection of 2002 was not considered reliable and that it is impossible for TEPCO officials to predict the tsunami of this magnitude based on this.