LAWSUIT AGAINST FUKUSHIMA COMPANIES TOSHIBA, HITACHI AND GENERAL ELECTRIC

AP reports: About 1,400 people filed a joint lawsuit Thursday against the three companies that manufactured reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.

The 1,415 plaintiffs, including 38 Fukushima residents and 357 people from outside Japan, said the manufacturers — Toshiba, GE and Hitachi — failed to make needed safety improvements to the four decade-old reactors at the Fukushima plant. They are seeking compensation of 100 yen ($1) each, saying their main goal is to raise awareness of the problem.

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