Japanese Gov't, Utility To Pay $4.4M Over Nuclear Meltdown

By Emily Field (October 10, 2017, 7:30 PM EDT) -- A Japanese court has ordered the country's government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. to pay 498 million yen ($4.4 million) and additional fines to 3,800 people in a class action who had to flee radiation from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown following an earthquake and tsunami, saying the parties' negligence led to the crisis, according to media reports....

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