Four Former Executives Ordered to Pay $95 Billion Over Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
A Tokyo court has ordered four former executives of the Tokyo Electric Power Company to pay the company about $95 billion in damages over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant disaster.
Wednesday’s ruling was in response to a civil lawsuit filed by TEPCO shareholders, who blamed the executives for ignoring recommendations to protect the plant from a possible tsunami.
The plant became inoperable on March 11, 2011, when a 9.0-magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami that swept across northeastern Japan before reaching Fukushima prefecture.
