Tepco admission

Tepco admits link between death and Fukushima disaster for 1st time

Enenews,

21 December, 2012

Title: TEPCO settles over death of evacuee
Source: Jiji Press
Date: Dec. 21, 2012

Tokyo Electric Power Co. has reached a settlement with the family of a woman from Minamisoma who died as a result of the accident at the utility’s crippled nuclear power plant [...]

This is the first time that TEPCO has admitted a causal link between the death of an evacuee and the accident at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. A total of 183 cases of settlement have been made public [...]

According to the center, the woman, who was hospitalized in the Odaka district of the city, died in April last year after she was forced to evacuate [...]

Tepco paid the woman’s family 12,000,000 yen, equivalent to $142,130.00 at today’s exchange rate.