In a statement read to AFP by a Tepco speaker, the firm mentioned: “We again show our heartfelt apology to people in Fukushima and members of the society broadly intended for causing trouble and worry” with the devastation.
But it declined to comment on the ruling, which includes whether there would be any kind of appeal.
3 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant’s 6 reactors were operating when a massive undersea quake triggered the devastating tsunami upon Mar 11, last year.
They went into meltdown after their particular cooling systems failed when waves flooded back-up generators.
The particular accident was the worst nuclear disaster given that Chernobyl and prompted the declaration of the evacuation zone throughout the plant.
Hundreds and hundreds of residents around the Fukushima plant were purchased to evacuate their particular homes, or chose to do so.
Around 12 per cent from the Fukushima region was once declared dangerous but no-go zones now cover around 2 per cent, although populations in many towns remain far lower than before.
Tepco has been pursued within the courts by survivors of the disaster and also shareholders, and six plaintiffs this year had taken the firm to court over claims they developed thyroid cancer because of rays exposure.
Within 2019, a courtroom acquitted three former Tepco officials in the only criminal demo to stem in the disaster.
That they had faced up to five yrs in prison when convicted of expert negligence resulting in passing away and injury, however the court ruled which they could not have predicted the scale of the tsunami that brought on the disaster.
Tepco is currently engaged in a decades-long hard work to decommission the rose, a costly and difficult process.
No one has been killed in the nuclear meltdown, but the tsunami left 18, 500 dead or missing.