New sentence linked to the Fukushima nuclear disaster .

A Tokyo court found operator Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) guilty of failing to prevent the March 2011 catastrophe .

The company that operated on the plant would not have provided adequate safety measures to the seismic risk and would not have equipped itself with damage containment plans or adequate evacuation plans. She was therefore ordered to pay a record reimbursement of 13 trillion yen, the equivalent of 94.6 billion euros .

The ruling regulates a 2012 dispute against the group's executives , following the triple incident: the 9 magnitude earthquake, the tsunami that followed and that destroyed the emergency generators that fed the reactor cooling systems, and the propagation of radiation in the surrounding areas.

In the days following the disaster, authorities ordered the evacuation of residents within a radius of 20 kilometers .

The Fukushima accident was the most serious after the Chernobyl disaster of 26 April 1986 and as this was classified as level 7 on the Ines scale, i.e. the maximum severity level of nuclear accidents.

(Unioneonline / D)

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