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大 中 小 文字サイズ 記事を印刷 Nuclear disaster victims look to dispute resolution system for compensation

“It’s unfair for TEPCO to discontinue what is only a small amount of damages after a short period. With the petition, we’d also like to prevent people’s memory of the nuclear disaster from fading.”

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Some 5,000 residents from areas outside evacuation zones near the crippled nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture are preparing to use an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) system to demand Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) pay them more damages in connection with the nuclear crisis.

A local citizens’ organization will file a petition on behalf of the residents, who live in the cities of Fukushima, Koriyama and Iwaki, with the Nuclear Damage Claim Dispute Resolution Center, an ADR entity, on March 5. Such a large-scale petition for nuclear accident compensation being launched by residents outside evacuation zones is unprecedented.

The citizens’ organization, which involves the Social Democratic Party’s local chapter and other entities, will encourage all Fukushima Prefecture residents to join in the petition.

“Residents outside evacuation zones are also worried about the nuclear crisis,” says Mitsuaki Karino, a member of the Iwaki Municipal Assembly who co-leads the citizens’ group. “It’s unfair for TEPCO to discontinue what is only a small amount of damages after a short period. With the petition, we’d also like to prevent people’s memory of the nuclear disaster from fading.”

Under the standards set by TEPCO, which operates the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, each adult living in the three cities — which are designated as priority zones for surveying radioactive contamination — is entitled to 120,000 yen as a lump sum payment for mental and emotional distress. Children and expectant mothers in these areas can receive up to 720,000 yen.

However, noting that residents from areas designated as evacuation zones are entitled to 100,000 yen a month, the citizens’ group argues that a wide gap in the amounts of compensation between residents of different areas has caused prejudice and conflict among Fukushima residents.

Through the petition, the organization is set to demand, on behalf of some 5,000 residents of the three cities, that TEPCO increase the amount of compensation by about 1 million yen each for adults and by 2 million yen for each child and pregnant woman to pay for emotional distress over a two-year period starting from the outbreak of the crisis. It will also urge TEPCO to continue to pay compensation to residents of these cities until their radiation doses decline to pre-disaster levels.

February 22, 2014(Mainichi Japan)

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