Futaba wants compensation from TEPCO

 March 8, 2012

Futaba Town asks TEPCO to compensate damage

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120308_19.html

Futaba Town, Fukushima Prefecture, has demanded that the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant pay about 211 million dollars as compensation for damage caused to the township.

Mayor Katsutaka Idogawa on Thursday handed an invoice to Naomi Hirose, managing director of Tokyo Electric Power Company, at a makeshift town hall inside an evacuation center in Saitama Prefecture.

The town is asking for about 211 million dollars in compensation for buildings and property. The township was forced to move after it was designated as a no-entry zone.

Fukushima Prefecture says the town became the first municipality near the troubled nuclear power plant to demand compensation from the utility.
Hirose told the mayor that the plant operator will process the matter promptly, along with compensation claims by individuals, without specifying a deadline.

Mayor Idogawa told reporters that the amount it is asking is only a portion of the unlimited damage the township has suffered since the nuclear accident. He said the town will invoice the evacuation costs later.