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Christopher Glen
No-one is ever held accountable in Japan. No surprises here.
SenseNotSoCommon
Their first sigh of relief in quite a while?
Thunderbird2
Yes, Toshiba's fault the plant was deluged with sea water, the electrics knocked out and the runaway reactor meltdowns. They should have expected a massive tsunami when they built the reactors.
Disillusioned
Thunderbird2, iris Toshiba's fault that the plant was not sufficiently protected against atsunami, even after the hard been advised to waterproof the electrical systems and to get the back up generators off the ground and into the roofs of the housings. If they had done these things there would have been no meltdown. It should also be noted that, none of the other coastal nuclear power plants have implemented these procedures either, yet they have been deemed safe for operation by the nuclear power watchdog.
smithinjapan
Christopher Glen: "No-one is ever held accountable in Japan. No surprises here."
Not if you're a big company, politician, or otherwise famous, no. No one should be surprised at all.
ThePBot
This may sound odd to you, but yeah, they should have expected it considering this is the coastal areas and Japan is notoriously known for their earthquakes. I think they're called "safety measures".
Ghost rider
Sam Dooley
Always comes down to who you know and how much money can be tossed around Happens here in the state's all the time But who can proves what.
kurisupisu
No liability for irradiation or radioactive poisoning then....
Isn't it time to ban nuclear power?
Star-viking
Safety updates are the responsibility of the operating company, overseen by the regulator.
This was a frivolous lawsuit, and it's about time Japan started lumping the makers of such lawsuits with the costs of the whole case.
Ricky Kaminski
The power companies reap the financial rewards, but pass the buck on to the public when something goes wrong. Nice deal.
Goodlucktoyou
Shouldn't "court" be called amakuradi?
nath
Assuming you are talking about 'amakudari', no. Amakudari is something entirely different.
GW
accountability likely doesn't exist in Japanese, clearly isn't used or UNDERSTOOD if it does!