Japan's top court: Fukushima nuclear-accident 'could not hav

Japan’s government would not have been able to prevent the nuclear accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in 2011 because the Great East Japan Earthquake triggered a tsunami of a scale “beyond expectations,” according to Japan’s Supreme Court, which ruled that the state is not liable for damages demanded by people whose lives were devastated by the disaster.

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