April 15, 2011. Japanese government orders plant operator to pay provisional compensation
| SOURCE: | Altegrity Risk International |
The Japanese government ordered the operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to pay some 48,000 families who lived within 30km (18 miles) of the plant some one million yen (US$12,000) per family beginning on April 28th. The government qualified these payments as "provisional," but said they were urgent to help families cope with losses incurred by the evacuation and orders to stay indoors. The announcement came as the plant operator continued to struggle to stabilize the nuclear plant. The announcement came after protesters gathered outside the company's offices and demanded compensation.
The death toll from the March 11th earthquake reached 13,538 on April 15th, with 14,589 listed as missing and more than 150,000 others made homeless.
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