2011年4月16日星期六

Utility Japan to evacuees pay Nuke plant

The crisis in the nuclear power plant of tsunami-crippled the Kazuko Suzuki forced Japan to flee his home without packaging, finished his work to a welfare office and the costs of his 18-year-old son an offer for his own work.


Announcement of the operator of the plant Friday it would pay $12,000 in initial compensation each evacuated household hit as many too little to repay his family for the economic upheavals that she has already suffered.


"I am not satisfied," said the 49-year old single mother of Futaba, who lived for a month, with his two young sons in a shelter in school, North of Tokyo. "I feel like this is just a way to take care of this quickly."


Suzuki is among tens of thousands forced to flee their homes because of radiation leaks from the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Dai-ichi, uncertain of when, if ever, they will be able to return. Cooling of the complex systems have been disabled by the tsunami on 11 March, which was caused by an earthquake of magnitude 9.0.


Some have travelled hundreds of kilometres at the headquarters of the Tokyo Electric Power Co. has in the capital to press their claims. Pressed by the Government thus, TEPCO announced that it would begin distributing money on 28 April.


"We decided to pay provisional compensation to provide some help for people (who have been affected)," the President TEPCO Masataka Shimizu told a press conference.


About 48 000 households living in about 20 miles (30 km) of the plant crippled would be eligible for initial payments — 1 million yen (about $12,000) for families and 750 000 yen (about $9 million) for single adults, the Government said. The Government said more had to be paid at the latest.


TEPCO expects to pay 50 billion yen (approximately from $ 600 million) in the first series of compensation. Then that fresh utility, Shimizu said that the company would consider executive salaries cut as well as a number of its employees.

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