Former JCO execs arrested over nuclear accident

Former JCO execs arrested over nuclear accident

MITO, Japan - Hiromasa Kato, former chief of the production department of JCO Co.'s uranium-processing plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, is among six former executives and current employees of the company who were arrested Oct. 11 on suspicion of negligence resulting in death in Japan's worst-ever nuclear power accident last year at the plant.

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