Nuclear power plant accident innocence September 19, 20:43
This is a reaction to the innocence of the former TEPCO management team.
Mr. Uda who participates in the National Diet accident “Scared organization for avoiding responsibility”
Sakon Uda, who participated in the accident investigation committee set up by the Diet, said, `` It was a decision as to how the individual criminal responsibility should be, but I could not prove that the management team did something wrong That said, investigations into accidents by the Diet and the government have already revealed TEPCO's organizational problems. "
On top of that, “The management didn't know. When I heard it but couldn't judge it, it meant that I did n’t have enough management ability. From the perspective of the organization, it was a very scary organization, so it would be even more necessary for TEPCO to restore trust to show that it was not such an organization anymore. "
NPO Corporation / Nuclear Information Center “Unfair Judgment”
The court admitted that the accident could not be assumed due to social wisdom, after saying “It was a very unfortunate result, although it was a very unfortunate result,” said Satoshi Matsukubo, the director of the NPO / Nuclear Information Center. Electricity, etc., before the accident, objected to the regulations that if the measures against severe accidents were incorporated into the regulations, it was against the regulations, and they made a social convention by themselves. Is a very problematic and unjustified decision. "
Zenharakyo “Properly respond to victims and decommissioning”
Takanobu Takanobu, Mayor of Tsuruga City, Fukui Prefecture, who is the chairman of the “Zenharakyo = National Nuclear Power Plant Location Municipal Council” created in municipalities nationwide where nuclear power plants are located, I would like to refrain, but I would like TEPCO to respond properly to the victims and decommissioning, and I would like each power company to continue to increase the safety of the nuclear power plant. ”
Criminal law expert "judgment within the framework of conventional cases"
Prof. Hiroshi Otsuka of Meiji University Law School who specializes in criminal law and is familiar with negligent criminal responsibility, Said that this case was handled within the framework of the existing case without special treatment. "
Regarding the point of innocence, “I pointed out that the reliability of“ long-term evaluation ”has not been fully demonstrated, and I did not follow the state-of-the-art knowledge that a tsunami exceeding 15 meters will come. The conclusion of innocence was that it was judged that the punishment should not be given and that it was decided that there was only an ultimate cessation of the nuclear power plant rather than the installation of a seawall to reliably avoid the result. I was affected. "
`` Foreseeability '' that people who have been evacuated due to the nuclear accident have been able to predict a huge tsunami that would cause a nuclear accident in multiple judgments so far in a civil trial seeking compensation for TEPCO Has been accepted, but not in this criminal case.
In this regard, Professor Otsuka said, “The criminal trial has a role different from that of the civil trial, and it does not ask the responsibility of the organization, it asks the responsibility of the individual. It is a judgment whether there was a failure enough to be put in prison.” As such, it should be considered separately from the certification in civil trials.