Anger as Fukushima nuclear plant bosses acquitted of negligence | The Malaysian Insight

Activists holding placards reading ‘All not guilty’ outside the Tokyo District Court in Japan, today. All three senior executives of the company that runs the Fukushima nuclear power plant have been acquitted of negligence resulting in injury and death. – EPA pic, September 19, 2019.

AS a Tokyo court pronounced three former executives not guilty in the only criminal trial over the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a woman’s voice cut through the silence from the gallery: “Unbelievable!” More than eight years after the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, only three people have faced criminal prosecution in relation to the Fukushima disaster, and their acquittal today left victims angry and distraught.

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