Fukushima: court upholds acquittals of three Tepco executives over disaster
Posted: 19th January 2023
High court in Japan agreed defendants could not have predicted the massive tsunami that crippled the power plant and triggered a nuclear meltdown
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma. Three Tepco executives have had their acquittals on negligence charges upheld by a court in Japan. Photograph: Shohei Miyano/AP
Justin McCurry in Tokyo
Wed 18 Jan 2023 06.40 GMTThree former executives from the company that operates the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have had their not-guilty verdicts upheld by a court in Japan, dealing a blow to campaigners demanding the firm take legal responsibility for the disaster in March 2011.