The Japanese court sentenced 4 former executives to the Four former executives to pay nearly 100 billion US dollars on the Fukushima accident.

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 13th. A court of Tokyo, Japan, ruled on the 13th that four former senior managers from Tokyo Electric Power Company failed to prevent the Foreshi First Nuclear Power Station radiation leakage. One hundred million U.S. dollars).

The Tokyo District Court said in the ruling that Dongdian's measures to deal with the tsunami that year "fundamentally lack a sense of security and sense of responsibility." Among the five defendants, the four former executives, including the former president of Dongdian, must bear the liability for compensation, and Xiaosen Shengsheng, the former executive director of Dongdian, did not need to compensate.

This is the Fukushima first nuclear power plant and nuclear sewage water storage tank taken on January 8, 2021. Xinhua News Agency/Common Club

According to the Kyodo News Agency, this is the first time that the court ruled that Dongdian's former executives were liable for compensation for the Fudao's first nuclear power plant accident. Tongcong spokesman refused to comment on this ruling.

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake occurred in the waters near Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, and the huge tsunami attacked the Fukushima first nuclear power plant operated by Dongdian, triggering severe radioactive substance leakage.

Dongdian's 48 shareholders filed a lawsuit in 2012, requiring five former senior executives to compensate for a total of 220 trillion yen (160 billion US dollars) to the company. The plaintiff lawyer said that this was the largest civil lawsuit in Japan.

On October 12, 2017, the construction staff in the nuclear protective clothing walked through the Fukushima first nuclear power plant in Japan. Xinhua News Agency

The court's trial focusing on whether the Dongdian management can predict the huge tsunami will trigger a leakage accident and its response decision -making in the nuclear power plant. Based on the government's long -term assessment of earthquake disasters, a working group in Dongdian estimated in 2008 that nuclear power plants may be attacked by a tsunami of 15.7 meters high.

The plaintiff's shareholders said that the government has made "optimal scientific evaluation", and Dongdian management has delayed preventive measures such as building warehouses. The defendant's lawyer argued that the government's evaluation lacked credibility, and at the time of the accident, Dongdian Management was preparing to entrust a Civil Engineering Association to study whether to formulate response measures based on this evaluation.

The court determined that the government's assessment was sufficiently credible, and Dongdian had the responsibility to take preventive measures.

(Source: Xinhua News Agency)

【Edit: Yao Hao】

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