Court orders TEPCO to pay Y49 mil over Fukushima evacuee's suicide

[yuiyoshida]

Source: JapanToday

FUKUSHIMA —


Attorneys representing the plaintiffs hold "victory" signs after the Fukushima District Court's ruling on a case involving the suicide of a nuclear disaster evacuee, in Fukushima on Aug. 26, 2014

A court has ruled that Fukushima Daiichi plant nuclear operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) was responsible for a woman’s suicide following the March 2011 disaster and must pay 49 million yen compensation, in a landmark ruling that could set a precedent for other claims against the utility.

The civil suit, filed at the Fukushima District Court by Mikio Watanabe, claimed that TEPCO was to blame for the July 2011 death of his wife, Hamako, 58, who doused herself in kerosene and set herself on fire after falling into depression.

She left no suicide note, but Mikio, 64, said TEPCO was directly responsible.

“If that accident hadn’t happened, we would have lived a normal, peaceful life” on their family farm some 50 km from the plant, said Mikio, who discovered her charred body.

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[madokie]

1. Good

Bad that she felt she had to end it all, good that TEPCO has to pay
Nuclear energy is neither safe nor cheap. If it had to stand on its own merits there would be NO nuclear power plants anywhere. And I might add we would not find ourselves in this pickle we're in with co2 right now either due to the fact that nuclear energy sucked all the air out of the room of research and discovery of alternate forms of producing our electricity. Right now here in Oklahoma we are getting 11% of our electricity from wind alone, probably more than what the nukes are giving us here. Not that many years ago that figure was zero

[rocktivity]

2. According to my handy dandy Xe.com currency converter

That's $470K in actual money (not including the lawyer's cut).


rocktivity

[yuiyoshida]

3. you are correct

470805.72 US Dollars