The court found one of the five executives not responsible in the civil suit: Akio Komori, a former managing executive officer and director of the Fukushima plant. The civil lawsuit was initially filed against five former TEPCO officials-including former chair Tsunehisa Katsumata and former president Masataka Shimizu-and centered on whether senior TEPCO management could have predicted a serious nuclear accident hitting the facility after a powerful tsunami. The spokesperson declined to comment on the litigation against TEPCO. is causing local residents and society at large.” Of the 154,000 people who were evacuated after the nuclear meltdown, 37,000 were still unable to return home due to the risk of radiation as of 2021.Ī spokesperson for TEPCO told Fortune, “We deeply apologize for the immense burden and deep concern the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of TEPCO Holdings, Inc. Many residents are also still not able to return to their homes near the site. TEPCO has recently been campaigning to dump the water into the surrounding ocean-a plan met with pushback from environmentalists and the local fishing industry. Scientists continue working to decommission and decontaminate the plant, which still has more than 1.24 million tonnes of water contaminated with radioactivity on-site.
The aftermath of the nuclear disaster can still be felt in Japan and the rest of the world more than 11 years later. The eye-popping $97 billion verdict is the largest ever awarded by a court for a civil lawsuit, according to the Japan Times. The civil lawsuit, brought on by 48 TEPCO shareholders, claimed the three reactor meltdowns could have been avoided if measures had been taken to prevent flooding in the plant’s main buildings and critical equipment rooms. We demand TEPCO and the government carry out the decommissioning project safely and steadily.In the first case to lead to a verdict against TEPCO executives, presiding judge Yoshihide Asakura found that the leaders of the company at the time had failed to properly prepare for a tsunami-related accident. "The biggest and most difficult task is the removal of the debris (molten fuel). "Because of the high radiation levels inside the reactors, I understand that robots that use semiconductors do not function as well as they are designed," he told his regular press conference on Monday. The new video comes as local residents voice worries about the safety of the precarious structure in an earthquake-prone region.įukushima governor Masao Uchibori pressed TEPCO to conduct an earthquake resistance evaluation for the facility to ensure the safety of the project to dismantle the plant. Similar video surveys have been conducted in the two other reactors that went into meltdown. TEPCO and the government expect to spend 30 to 40 years removing molten fuel from the facility and cleaning the area. The video illustrated the daunting task ahead to decommission the plant after it was hit by a huge tsunami triggered by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake. The video showed damaged concrete walls exposing steel rods embedded inside, with debris piled roughly 50 centimetres (20 inches) high.
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