Legislation designed to facilitate compensation to people and businesses affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster was enacted in the Diet on Wednesday.
A new entity tasked with securing funds for compensation, a key component of the government-led redress program, will be set up by the end of this month at the earliest to begin disbursing sums of money to recipients over the country’s worst nuclear power accident.
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A nuclear power plant in Byron, Illinois. Taken by photographer Joseph Pobereskin (http://pobereskin.com).
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