General Electric Co., the Boston-based conglomerate, is facing a federal lawsuit over its role in the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011. The $500 million class-action lawsuit against GE was filed Friday in federal court in Boston by a group that includes residents, medical clinics and companies operating in the area affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the largest disaster of its kind in the world. “GE designed and largely constructed the the entire failed Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant at the center of the dispute,” the lawsuit claims, “and for many years, directly or indirectly through its affiliates, was responsible for the maintenance of the (plant). To this day, GE has paid literally nothing toward the massive economic and business destruction its actions and failings have caused.”
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