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September 19, 2019

Former Executives Acquitted over Roles in Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
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In Japan, a court has found three former executives at the Tokyo
Electric Power Company not guilty of professional negligence over their
role in the multiple nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima power plant in
2011. The three had been indicted for failing to safeguard against the
magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami that brought power at the nuclear
plant offline, leading to explosions that spread radioactive fallout
over parts of northern Japan. They were the only people to face criminal
charges for the nuclear disaster.


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