Three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. were acquitted Thursday on charges of failing to prevent the Fukushima nuclear disaster, triggered by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan."It would be impossible to operate a nuclear plant if operators were obliged to predict every possibility related to tsunami and take necessary measures," Kenichi Nagafuchi, presiding judge of the Tokyo District Court, said in handing down the ruling in the first and only criminal trial over the nuclear crisis.At the court, former TEPCO Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, 79…READ FULL ARTICLE
