A court has ruled the Japanese government could have done more to stop the meltdown at the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011 after it was struck by an earthquake and tsunami. The government and the plant’s operator will have to pay a total of 500 million yen—or $4.4 million—to the 3,800 plaintiffs in the class-action suit. The case is the largest of the more than two dozen cases filed by residents in Fukushima, which suffered the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
