3 ex-TEPCO execs judged to merit indictment on nuke disaster

3 ex-TEPCO execs judged to merit indictment on nuke disaster

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroyuki Kawai (C), an attorney representing people who sought a review of the prosecution's judgment on six former Tokyo Electric Power Co. executives, and others meet the press in Tokyo on July 31, 2014, about a decision by a committee for the inquest of prosecution that three of them deserve indictment over the 2011 nuclear disaster at the utility's Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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