TEPCO and BP should not be responsible

For cleaning up their own messes. As we have now been faced with the world's two worst energy disasters within a year, shouldn't governments or international organizations take over and put together plans of action as to what should be done in a worst case scenario? Corporations can not be trusted with this responsibility. The risks are far too great to our citizen populations, and its clear that big money doesn't give a damn about the rest of us. Oh, and when we're done cleaning up? Send them the bill.

who here is going to clean it up?

because our government has effectively dismantled any agency that might have been useful in these types of situations. Our government is ineffective because that's the way Big Money likes it.

why should they give a damn about any bill we send?
Even now, BP is STILL refusing to pay the compensation bills on the Gulf Coast.

Send them a bill and they will dispute it for decades.
It is not just the clean up for which we cannot expect them to be responsible, it is the entire production process. When the profit motive is the prime driver of production it would be naive to expect other considerations to enter the equation.

We might also ask what level of production might be necessary if production were driven by human need rather than profit. Consider that Capitalism drives Imperialism the Pentagon's usage of 40% of US oil consumption, would not a major diminishment of that usage, clearly not in the interest of human need, have a major impact upon the US carbon footprint? That's the biggest, fastest means of mitigation that we could ever find. Survival demands it.

These bastards need to go to prison. You can't be responsible for damaging the environment, even killing people, and not be held accountable.