Experts warned of powerful aftershocks in the days ahead as they puzzled over the forces that generated the magnitude-7.6 earthquake in the Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture on New Year’s Day.
By EISUKE SASAKI/ Senior Staff Writer, October 31, 2023 https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15044716Earth science specialists hold a news conference on Oct. 30 to express their opposition to a plan to bury spent nuclear fuel as a final storage method. (Eisuke Sasaki) About 300 earth science specialists have released a statement calling for a fundamental review of the Japanese…
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Lawyers for the plaintiffs hold a news conference on Feb. 19 after the Tokyo High Court found the central government equally liable in connection with the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. (Yuta Ogi)
Yet another high court has found the central government as liable as Tokyo Electric Power Co. for not taking steps to prevent the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in 2011.
The Tokyo High Court s Feb. 19 decision was based on the issuance of a report that pointed to the possibility of a large tsunami striking the Fukushima area.
It determined that the central government s failure to act on the report s findings was “illegal” and ordered it and TEPCO to pay a total of about 280 million yen ($2.7 million) to 43 plaintiffs now living in Chiba Prefecture.