Former TEPCO bosses indicted over Fukushima meltdown

By Yoko Wakatsuki and Euan McKirdy, CNN

Updated 1:29 AM ET, Mon February 29, 2016

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A TEPCO employee walks past the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on February 10, 2016. Next month, Japan will mark the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, when an earthquake and tsunami hit on March 11, 2011, leaving more than 15,000 people dead.
Photos: Inside Fukushima: Cleanup underway, 5 years on
A TEPCO employee walks past the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on February 10, 2016. Next month, Japan will mark the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, when an earthquake and tsunami hit on March 11, 2011, leaving more than 15,000 people dead.
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TEPCO employees, in blue protective suits, brief a press group in front of storage tanks for radioactive water on Februray 10.
Photos: Inside Fukushima: Cleanup underway, 5 years on
TEPCO employees, in blue protective suits, brief a press group in front of storage tanks for radioactive water on Februray 10.
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A member of the tour group, donning a protective suit and a mask, takes a look at the crippled No. 3 reactor on February 10.
Photos: Inside Fukushima: Cleanup underway, 5 years on
A member of the tour group, donning a protective suit and a mask, takes a look at the crippled No. 3 reactor on February 10.