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© 2019 AFPCourt orders gov't, TEPCO to pay Fukushima evacuees over nuclear disaster
By Behrouz Mehri TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Disillusioned
That's good news for the evacuees, but not so good for the rest of the people in the TEPCO grid. They've already increased tariffs by 10% to pay for their manmade disaster. No doubt we will see another increase to cover this round of compensation. Both TEPCO and the government are criminals who seem to be above the law.
Goodlucktoyou
Taxpayers shouldn’t pay for disasters caused by private companies.
since1981
Remember, J Government has 51% control over TEPCO, so will the money come from TEPCO or Tax payers? Or both?
sf2k
This is why TEPCO wanted to be acquired by the JGov because profits remain more important than responsibilities. Just sad
Brian Wheway
I dont think any one now can say Nuclear power is cheap and safe.
sf2k
There's always some yahoo though.
Strangerland
Nuclear power actually is cheap, and quite safe. The problem is that when it does go wrong, it goes really, really wrong.
gogogo
10,000 dollars per resident what a joke.
Cricky
Wasn't part of the cost/bill set aside for decommissioning and disaster? That was added to the bill? But now after nearly a decade hey presto tax payers pay? That's wrong, you'd now have to assume that the government just doesn't care about YOU.
Bugle Boy of Company B
Is that ¥110 million EACH? Or is that amount to be divided among 110 people?
One figure is too much, and the other too little! Might I offer a suggestion? How about doing some definitive reporting?
JenniSchiebel
Math time: 419.6 million yen divided by 152 residents = about 2.8 million yen per person. That's about $25,000 US dollars.
That doesn't seem like very much, considering everything.
JeffLee
The Einstein who decided to locate a nuke plant on the very coast that the world the word "tsunami" should be sued....big time.
englisc aspyrgend
Perhaps all the executives should repay all their pay for the period since the hazard has been known and no action taken?
Jimi
7 years too late, as ever, things move at a glacial rate in Japan... and a pittance of a compensation too.
GW
Do the math the payouts are pathetically LOW, hell Y419million would pay for what 15 x Y25million country homes...……...this is a frigging JOKE
A real SICK joke that continues unabated!!!
ushosh123
Theres certainly previous payouts to Fukushima evacuees, how this differs from those the article makes no mention of.
Disillusioned
That depends on which glacier you are talking about. The glacier on the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro has decreased by 80% in the last 15 years. Just like Japan's economy.
Do the hustle
Actually, the cost of generating nuclear power may very well be cheap. However, th cost of building the plants, maintaining them, decommissioning them and storing spent fuel is huge, which means it is not cheap at all. As for safety, the are huge dangers in manufacturing, transporting and storing the fuel. The plants themselves run on the edge of critical failure at all times, as has been shown with three major incidents (so far) and a handful of minor incidents. This means it is not safe either.
Dango bong
bout time?
Strangerland
Still cheaper than the alternatives.
So I stick by my original claim.
Strangerland
And yet people die from coal related pollution all the time. People don’t die from nuclear power.
So again, I stand by my original claim.
Moderator
Back on topic please.
602miko
They can start to move on that money, problen is how they can sell their properties which some of them are farmers?
kurisupisu
What will the cost be to future generations of Japanese, left with literally thousands of tonnes of nuclear waste that emits radiation for a millennia- no way to compensate for that!
Scrote
It's outrageous that after eight years TEPCO still haven't settled all these outstanding law suits. I'm sure they will appeal and the process will drag on for several more decades, until everyone is dead.
And if TEPCO raise their prices you can switch to another supplier.
Paul Richards
"...to pay the money to 152 local residents..."
It's good TEPCO, hasn't filed for bankruptcy as arguably under Japan’s Act on Compensation, this entity could tip up, in effect leaving the Government with the whole liability.
A scenario, that in all probability, would have dire consequences for the whole nuclear industry.