Town near nuclear plant rejects Japanese utility's 'token' offer

[kristopher]

Source: CNN

Tokyo (CNN) -- Acknowledging the toll the unrelenting nuclear crisis has had on people's lives and livelihoods, the owner of the stricken nuclear plant has offered money to some of those in the radiation's reach -- an offer that one city decided to refuse.

An official with the Tokyo Electric Power Company, which operates the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, said Tuesday that the utility made a "token" offer to residents in 10 communities near the plant.

Starting March 31, money began going out to those in nine of them. But the town of Namie rejected Tokyo Electric's offer, with a local official calling it a too meager attempt to make up for a drastically reduced quality of life and income.

Tokyo Electric didn't detail how much money is being offered to each community. But Kousei Negishi, who is the manager of general affairs for Namie, said that it was 20 million yen ($238,000). That works out to about $12 for each of Namie's roughly 20,000 residents...

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"That works out to about $12 for each of Namie's roughly 20,000 residents."

I hope there is more to this than we understand at this point.

[Hubert Flottz]

1. K&R

[madokie]

2. Nice folks those nuke boys

NOT.
When will people wake up?

[SkyDaddy7]

3. I thought BP was Heartless!! nt.

[madokie]

5. yup me too

[jimlup]

4. Yeah, the real offer should be about a million times what they offered.