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Nuclear evacuees seek rise in TEPCO compensation

Nov 14 2014

More than 2,800 evacuees from a village near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are seeking state arbitration for a rise in compensation from Tokyo Electric Power Company, the plant’s operator.

Iitate Village is still an evacuation zone three years and eight months after the nuclear accident at the power plant. But decontamination work is proceeding across the village, which is located about 40 kilometers from the plant.

About half the village’s population, or 2,837 evacuees, filed for arbitration with the Center for Settlement of Fukushima Nuclear Damage Claims on Friday.

They say their prolonged evacuation is splitting local communities and families and threatening generations of the village’s history.

The evacuees are seeking increased compensation and an apology from TEPCO. They want the current monthly evacuation compensation per capita more than tripled to 350,000 yen, or roughly 3,000 dollars per month. They also call for around 172,000 dollars per evacuee in compensation for ruining their village lives.

The representative of the evacuees, Kenichi Hasegawa, explained why they filed for the class-action arbitration. He said the evacuees decided they must express their anger as their lives have not improved since the nuclear accident. He added that the evacuees want their village lives back.

TEPCO said in a statement it has yet to learn the details of the documents. But the company pledges a sincere response to the arbitration in line with settlement procedures

Source: NHK

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141114_34.html

November 14, 2014 - Posted by | Japan |

1 Comment »

  1. Title: “The Sorrow of Living in Fukushima tr. by Chizu Hamada”

    Quote: “Making my kids wear a glass badge, a useless almighty protector,
    I send them onto a battle field.
    I see decontamination trucks in town
    There are unknown men in the local convenience store.
    I smell dusty soil from them.
    Plastic storage bags are piling up here and there,
    and I recall there is a school meal center just near by.”

    …

    http://nuclearexhaust.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/the-sorrow-of-living-in-fukushima/

    Dud's avatar Comment by Dud | November 15, 2014 | Reply


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