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Tepco pays $142,130.00 in admission of a death caused by Fukushima nuclear disaster

Tepco admits link between death and Fukushima disaster for 1st time http://enenews.com/tepco-admits-link-between-death-and-fukushima-disaster-for-1st-time
December 20th, 2012
 Title: TEPCO settles over death of evacuee
Source: Jiji Press
Date: Dec. 21, 2012

Tokyo Electric Power Co. has reached a settlement with the family of a woman from Minamisoma who died as a result of the accident at the utility’s crippled nuclear power plant […]

This is the first time that TEPCO has admitted a causal link between the death of an evacuee and the accident at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. A total of 183 cases of settlement have been made public […]

According to the center, the woman, who was hospitalized in the Odaka district of the city, died in April last year after she was forced to evacuate […]

Tepco paid the woman’s family 12,000,000 yen, equivalent to $142,130.00 at today’s exchange rate.
See also: NHK: Criminal inquiry into nuclear accident begins — Fukushima disaster “a criminal act by the gov’t and Tepco”? — Multiple prosecutors coordinating investigation

December 22, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Fukushima 2012