Nuclear accident What is the responsibility of the top management? Tokyo Electric Criminal Court Tomorrow's decision September 18 16:23
The case where three former TEPCO management teams were forcibly charged over the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant will be sentenced on the 19th. All three claim innocence, and attention is paid to how the court judges the criminal liability of top management in the nuclear accident.
TEPCO's former chairman Katsuhisa Tsunehisa (79), former vice president Ichiro Takeguro (73), and former vice president Ei Muto (69), the former management team, It was forcibly prosecuted for negligence, death and injury for business purposes, and all were innocent.
The trial was held 37 times at the Tokyo District Court from June, and it was a big issue whether a huge tsunami that would cause a nuclear accident could be predicted, or even if it could be predicted, effective measures could be taken to prevent the accident. It was.
The designated lawyer, who is the prosecutor's office, filed a five-year imprisonment saying that he was able to predict the tsunami after receiving reports from his subordinates that he would receive a huge tsunami, and was obliged to stop the nuclear power plant.
On the other hand, three lawyers from the old management allegedly guilty of saying, “There was no possibility of predicting the accident and it was not possible to prevent the accident”.
The ruling will be handed down in the afternoon of 19th, and it will be noted how the court judges the criminal liability of top management in the nuclear accident that was unprecedented damage.