TEPCO: Radioactive substances belong to landowners, not us

[homasse]

TEPCO: Radioactive substances belong to landowners, not us

During court proceedings concerning a radioactive golf course, Tokyo Electric Power Co. stunned lawyers by saying the utility was not responsible for decontamination because it no longer "owned" the radioactive substances

Comments

[cherrylng]

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That radioactive trash of yours still belongs to you, TEPCO. I'm not going to wait for 30+ years of its half life until I can open my golf course again.

[romp]

No, TEPCO, but good try.

[homasse]

I don't know if I'd even consider that a "good" try.

[apis_cerana]

..................

*Facepalm*

[bludstone]

Well, if the legal system is anything like it is in america, then this is just the lawyer doing the best job they can.

TEPCO will lose this.

[pichipai]

If any goodness exists in the world, they damn well better, jfc. D:

the lawyer doing the best job they can

[evildevil]

if this is their best, then they need to be fired. is like they are not even trying.

[carmy_w]

That's just what I was thinking-this was a lawyer's stunt.

Personally, I think that courts should be allowed to chastise lawyers that pull stuff like this. It wastes the court's time, and above all it makes the lawyer in question look like an idiot.

[beckielric]

Yeah, not cool TEPCO. =\