Japan court finds Fukushima power plant operator liable for woman's suicide
By Ann Schober on Aug 26, 2014 05:03 pm[JURIST] The district court in Fukushima, Japan, ruled Tuesday that a woman's family may be compensated for her death after determining that her depression and suicide were caused by the March 2011 nuclear meltdown [IAEA backgrounder] of a nearby power plant. The family of chicken farmers lived in their mortgaged home in Yamakiya, 30 miles north of the Tokyo power plant that released harmful radiation after a March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. After Yamakiya was determined to have unsafe levels... +read more
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