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High court nixes call to halt nuclear reactors in southwestern Japan via Japan Today

Posted on 2019/07/11 by nfield

FUKUOKA The Fukuoka High Court upheld Wednesday a lower court decision to reject a call by local residents to suspend operation of nuclear reactors in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Saga. Some 170 residents had appealed the Saga District Court … Continue reading →

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Court absolves government of blame in nuclear disaster via Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2019/03/15 by nfield

CHIBA–A district court here on March 14 absolved the central government of responsibility but ordered the operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to pay compensation to nine of 19 plaintiffs who evacuated to Chiba. The Chiba … Continue reading →

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Former fishermen lose H-bomb damages suit linked to Bikini Atoll tests U.S. conducted in 1954 via the Japan Times

Posted on 2018/07/21 by nfield

KOCHI – A court has rejected a damages suit filed by former fishermen and their families who allege the state hid key records showing they were exposed to radiation from the Pacific hydrogen bomb tests conducted by the United States in … Continue reading →

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7 Years on, Sailors Exposed to Fukushima Radiation Seek Their Day in Court via The Nation

Posted on 2018/03/17 by nfield

By Gregg Levine   Special investigation: US military personnel are sick and dying, and want the nuclear plant’s designers and owners to take responsibility. […] The Reagan—along with two dozen other US Navy vessels—was part of Operation Tomodachi (Japanese for “friends”), … Continue reading →

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Class action lawsuits filed for victims of West Lake Landfill radiation via St. Louis American

Posted on 2018/02/22 by nfield

Radioactive material came to St. Louis in the 1940s with World War II, when a uranium processing plant was constructed downtown. Years later, in the 1970s, radioactive waste from that site was transported to the West Lake Landfill in the … Continue reading →

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Top court dismisses Nagasaki hibakusha-recognition suit via The Japan Times

Posted on 2017/12/18 by nfield

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a suit filed by people who were in the vicinity of Nagasaki at the time of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing and seeking official recognition as A-bomb survivors. While turning down recognition of the … Continue reading →

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GE Faces Suit Over Fukushima Nuclear Plant Design via Law360

Posted on 2017/11/21 by nfield

Law360, Washington (November 20, 2017, 6:24 PM EST) — Residents and companies of Fukushima, Japan, on Friday filed a putative class action lawsuit against General Electric Co. in Massachusetts federal court, accusing the company of negligence that led to a catastrophic … Continue reading →

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Chiba court recognizes nuke disaster evacuees’ ‘loss of hometown’ for first time via The Mainichi

Posted on 2017/09/24 by nfield

When on Sept. 22 the Chiba District Court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) to pay some 376 million yen in damages to a group of Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuees, it gave concrete recognition to the evacuees’ loss — of … Continue reading →

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Navy Families Sue Fukushima Operators for Wrongful Death via Courthouse News Service

Posted on 2017/08/23 by nfield

Bianca Bruno SAN DIEGO (CN) — Families of five Navy service members who died after responding to the Fukushima nuclear meltdown have sued Tokyo Electric Power Co., blaming the deaths on radiation illnesses contracted from the March 2011 disaster. The families wish … Continue reading →

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In first, government and Tepco found liable for Fukushima disaster via The Japan Times

Posted on 2017/03/19 by kojimaaiko

MAEBASHI, GUNMA PREF. – A court in Japan has ruled for the first time that the government and the operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant were responsible for failing to take preventive measures against the March … Continue reading →

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