Nuclear Power Plant Accident sentenced to all three former TEPCO management teams, Tokyo District Court, September 19, 13:18
In a trial in which three former TEPCO management teams were forcibly charged over the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the Tokyo District Court acquitted all three of them.
Three former management teams, TEPCO's former chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata (79), former vice president Ichiro Takeguro (73), and former vice president Eimu Muto (69), have been acquitted.
The three were forcibly prosecuted for negligence, death and injury in the work by the prosecution's decision over the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, all innocent.
In a trial that has been held 37 times since June, the designated lawyer of the public prosecutor's office said, “When a subordinate reports on the calculation result that a huge tsunami will arrive, we can predict the arrival of the tsunami and drive the nuclear power plant. "I was obliged to stop."
On the other hand, three lawyers from the former management team said, “The grounds of the calculation results were not reliable, and they took a reasonable procedure to ask the civil engineering society to obtain an opinion. They could n’t have predicted and could n’t prevent the accident, ”he all claimed.
In the verdict, Kenichi Nagahama, President of the Tokyo District Court, acquitted all three of them.