1,000 People File Lawsuit Against Manufacturer's Of Nuclear Reactors; General Electric, Hitachi, Toshiba

Over 1,000 people filed lawsuits against TEPCO and manufacturers, to set precedent against nuclear plant builders. 

While most lawsuits related to Japan's nuclear disaster have focused on either the plant owner or Japanese government, one group who turned up to court on Monday (March 10) are looking to sue the manufacturers of the nuclear reactors themselves.

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant suffered a meltdown of three of its five working reactors after a massive tsunami engulfed the facility three years ago.

A group representing four thousand people is looking to make those who helped build the actual reactors in the Fukushima plant responsible for the disaster as well.

They have already brought one lawsuit against General Electric, Hitachi and Toshiba but filed again on Monday with more claimants, as the current Shinzo Abe government looks to export Japanese nuclear technology overseas.

"We still don't know the full reasons for the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. Even though we don't know that, saying that the next reactors are safe is impossible. So looking to take that and export it out of the country and make profit, no matter how you look at it isn't something you can allow. So we are, of course, against it," head lawyer Akihiro Shima told Reuters.

Under Japanese law, while the plant operator and government are liable for the disaster, the actual makers of the nuclear reactors themselves face no legal responsibility.

The group has managed to collect 4,000 signatures for the law suit, with many claimants overseas.

The amounts actually being asked though is only 100 yen (about one US dollar) per person. Shima says he wants to focus more on the issue that nuclear manufacturers have escaped blame more than the actual compensation.

"The 100 yen? It's not enough is it? For this case we thought of a large number of ways to do it but as we're going against someone, the manufacturers, who under the law are already void from responsibility it's not normally possible to win," Shima said.

"We hope to focus the case of whether they (the manufacturers) have responsibility or not, and in order to do that we decided not to focus on how much money we would ask for," he said.

On the eve of commemorations of the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, many other other groups around the nation have also filed for lawsuits on Monday (March 10) against both the government and plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco). Japanese media said lawsuits have been filed in courts in Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Kyoto. At least one in Kobe demands the government and Tepco compensate 54 people who were forced to flee their home after the meltdown for a total of 445 million yen (4.3 million U.S. dollars).

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