Search｜Photos & Images & Videos｜KYODO NEWS IMAGES INC

Ex-TEPCO execs merit indictment over nuclear crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photo shows three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. -- former chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata (L) as well as two former vice presidents Sakae Muto (C) and Ichiro Takekuro. An independent judicial panel of citizens has decided that the three merit indictment over the 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

E

TEPCO president at press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. -- (from R) Executive Vice President Sakae Muto, President Masataka Shimizu and Executive Vice President Takashi Fujimoto -- bow in apology during a press conference at the utility's head office in Tokyo on April 13, 2011. Shimizu said TEPCO, the operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, is considering paying provisional compensation to residents with homes near the plant who have been evacuated over the nuclear crisis which is graded as the most serious level of crisis on an internationally recognized scale.

E

Tokyo Electric execs' apology

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. Vice President Sakae Muto (2nd from R) and other executives of Japan's largest power utility bow to apologize during a press conference in Tokyo on March 27, 2011, over errors it made in analyzing the concentration of radioactive substances in water found in the basement of the No. 2 reactor's turbine building at the company's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, crippled by the March 11 massive earthquake and tsunami.

E

Tokyo Electric Vice President Muto

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 27, 2011, shows Tokyo Electric Power Co. Vice President Sakae Muto during a press conference in Tokyo.

E

Tokyo Electric execs' apology

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. Vice President Sakae Muto (R) and other executives of Japan's largest power utility bow to apologize over a crisis at its nuclear power plants in quake-hit Fukushima Prefecture in a press conference in Tokyo on March 14, 2011. The No. 2 reactor at the company's Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant lost cooling functions and the reactor's fuel rods were briefly fully exposed earlier in the day, indicating the critical situation of the reactor's core beginning to melt due to overheating.

E

3 ex-TEPCO execs indicted

Photo shows former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. who were indicted on Feb. 29, 2016, for failure to take measures to prevent the tsunami-triggered crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex. The three are (from L) Tsunehisa Katsumata, TEPCO chairman at the time, and two former vice presidents -- Ichiro Takekuro and Sakae Muto. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

E

Ex-TEPCO execs to face mandatory indictment given panel decision

Photo shows (from L) Tsunehisa Katsumata, 75, who was chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co. at the time of the 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, and former TEPCO vice presidents Sakae Muto, 65, and Ichiro Takekuro, 69. An independent judicial panel of citizens said July 31, 2015, it has decided that the three former executives merit indictment over the disaster, setting the stage for them to face mandatory prosecution. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

E

TEPCO president at press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. -- (from R) Executive Vice President Sakae Muto, President Masataka Shimizu and Executive Vice President Takashi Fujimoto -- bow in apology during a press conference at the utility's head office in Tokyo on April 13, 2011. Shimizu said TEPCO, the operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, is considering paying provisional compensation to residents with homes near the plant who have been evacuated over the nuclear crisis which is graded as the most serious level of crisis on an internationally recognized scale. (Kyodo)

E

Tokyo Electric Vice President Muto

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 27, 2011, shows Tokyo Electric Power Co. Vice President Sakae Muto during a press conference in Tokyo. (Kyodo)

E

Tokyo Electric execs' apology

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. Vice President Sakae Muto (2nd from R) and other executives of Japan's largest power utility bow to apologize during a press conference in Tokyo on March 27, 2011, over errors it made in analyzing the concentration of radioactive substances in water found in the basement of the No. 2 reactor's turbine building at the company's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, crippled by the March 11 massive earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

E

Tokyo Electric execs' apology

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. Vice President Sakae Muto (R) and other executives of Japan's largest power utility bow to apologize over a crisis at its nuclear power plants in quake-hit Fukushima Prefecture in a press conference in Tokyo on March 14, 2011. The No. 2 reactor at the company's Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant lost cooling functions and the reactor's fuel rods were briefly fully exposed earlier in the day, indicating the critical situation of the reactor's core beginning to melt due to overheating. (Kyodo)

E

Ex-TEPCO execs merit indictment over nuclear crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photo shows three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. -- former chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata (L) as well as two former vice presidents Sakae Muto (C) and Ichiro Takekuro. An independent judicial panel of citizens has decided that the three merit indictment over the 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. (Kyodo)

E

Ex-Tepco execs go on trial over Fukushima nuclear disaster

Combined photo shows (from L) former Tokyo Electric Power Co. Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata and Ichiro Takekuro and Sakae Muto, former vice presidents of the power supplier, arriving at the Tokyo District Court on June 30, 2017, for the first criminal trial over the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster. The three pleaded not guilty. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo