FILE – In this Nov. 12, 2011, the Unit 4 reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station is seen through a bus window in Okuma, Japan. A Japanese court has awarded compensation totaling about 500 million yen
FILE – In this Nov. 12, 2011, the Unit 4 reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station is seen through a bus window in Okuma, Japan. A Japanese court has awarded compensation totaling about 500 million yen ($4.5 million) to thousands of former Fukushima residents who demanded damages for their lost livelihood due to the 2011 nuclear crisis, ordering the government to split the cost with the utility. The Fukushima District Court on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017, said the government had failed to order the utility, Tokyo Electric Power Co., to improve safety measures despite knowing as early as 2002 of a risk of a massive tsunami in the region. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)
