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Tepco’s compensation for 3/11 victims has made matters worse for many via The Japan Times

Posted on 2018/04/13 by nfield

BY PHILIP BRASOR AND MASAKO TSUBUKU    As of the end of March, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. had paid more than ¥8 trillion in compensation (baishōkin) related to the Fukushima No. 1 reactor meltdowns of March 2011. About half of this … Continue reading →

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L’Algérie réclamera des indemnités de la France via TRT Français

Posted on 2018/01/29 by nfield

[…] La France a effectué entre 1966 et 1996, environ 210 essais nucléaires en Algérie et dans la Polynésie française. Plus de 100 000 personnes ont été affectées par les essais nucléaires qui sont une ‘tâche noire’ dans l’histoire de … Continue reading →

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Chiba court recognizes nuke disaster evacuees’ ‘loss of hometown’ for first time via The Mainichi

Posted on 2017/09/24 by nfield

When on Sept. 22 the Chiba District Court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) to pay some 376 million yen in damages to a group of Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuees, it gave concrete recognition to the evacuees’ loss — of … Continue reading →

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Tepco again ordered to pay damages in nuclear disaster, but not state via The Mainichi

Posted on 2017/09/22 by nfield

[…] The Chiba District Court ruling follows a Maebashi District Court decision in March that found negligence on the part of both Tepco and the government played a part in the worst nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl and ordered them to … Continue reading →

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Former Piketon uranium workers find advocate in Cold War Patriots group via The Columbus Dispatch

Posted on 2017/06/11 by nfield

Peggy Scott received a flag during one of the Cold War Patriots meetings held in southern Ohio last month, but this wasn’t just any flag. This flag had flown over the Capitol Building on Feb. 17. Her husband, Jim Scott, … Continue reading →

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60% of new utilities object to helping pay Fukushima compensation　via Japan Today

Posted on 2017/04/03 by nfield

TOKYO — More than 60% of major new entrants to the electric power industry object to the government’s plan for them to shoulder some of the compensation costs stemming from the Fukushima nuclear crisis, a Kyodo News survey shows. Of … Continue reading →

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In first, government and Tepco found liable for Fukushima disaster via The Japan Times

Posted on 2017/03/19 by kojimaaiko

MAEBASHI, GUNMA PREF. – A court in Japan has ruled for the first time that the government and the operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant were responsible for failing to take preventive measures against the March … Continue reading →

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Rowe seeks federal compensation for hosting nuclear waste at former atomic power plant via Mass Live

Posted on 2016/10/04 by norma field

ROWE — Yankee Rowe Nuclear Power Station shut down in 1992, and was demolished and decommissioned by 2007, but the fenced and isolated site on the upper Deerfield River still hosts 127 tons of spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste … Continue reading →

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Trinity Test Site Tour Met With Protest via KRWG TV/FM

Posted on 2016/10/03 by norma field

New Mexico residents living near the site of the first atomic bomb have held their annual demonstration as visitors caravanned into the Trinity Test Site for a tour. The Alamogordo Daily News reports Tularosa Basin Downwinders protested Saturday as caravanners … Continue reading →

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TEPCO ordered to pay for ‘false rumors’ from Fukushima crisis via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2016/07/21 by norma field

A court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to pay compensation to a golf course operator for lost revenue caused by “false rumors” from the disaster at the utility’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Although TEPCO argued that the golf … Continue reading →

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