4,000 sue GE, Toshiba, Hitachi over Fukushima disaster

National Mar. 13, 2014 - 12:50PM JST ( 15 )

4,000 sue GE, Toshiba, Hitachi over Fukushima disaster A picture taken at Fukushima nuclear power plant on June 17, 2011 . AFP

TOKYO —

A class action lawsuit against nuclear suppliers General Electric, Toshiba and Hitachi has ballooned to around 4,000 claimants who are seeking damages over the Fukushima atomic disaster, the lead lawyer said Wednesday.

The claimants, hailing from Japan and 32 other countries including the United States, Germany and South Korea, want the U.S. and Japanese nuclear power plant suppliers to pay compensation, lawyer Akihiro Shima told media in Tokyo.

His comments came one day after the third anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in a generation.

The filing—which asks for a largely symbolic 100 yen per claimant—was described by Shima as the first lawsuit to be brought against nuclear power-plant suppliers over the 2011 accident.

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