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A wide-angle shot of the storage tanks for contaminated water at the Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, January 20, 2023. /CFP
Lawyers acting as prosecutors on Tuesday appealed to the Tokyo Supreme Court against the acquittal of three former Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) executives accused of failing to prevent the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
The lawyers took action after the Tokyo High Court dismissed their appeal against a Tokyo District Court ruling that acquitted former Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata and former Executive Vice Presidents Ichiro Takekuro and Sakae Muto of charges of professional negligence resulting in death and injuries.
Last week, the Tokyo High Court said it was "reasonable" for the district court to conclude that the three could not have anticipated a tsunami the size of the one that knocked out the key cooling functions at the Daiichi nuclear power plant, causing core meltdowns.
The facility in northeastern Japan experienced an unusual triple meltdown after the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit in March 2011.
The high court upheld the lower court's decision, saying the former executives could not have foreseen the enormous wave because a long-term evaluation by a government agency was not reliable.
(With input from Xinhua)
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