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STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n- Tokyo Electric offers 20 million yen to residents of 10 communities near embattled plant<\/li>\n
- Nine accepted, but one refused because an official says that the money is “not enough”<\/li>\n
- The utility company says more money to those affected will likely come in the future<\/li>\n
- One estimate is that Tokyo Electric will pay between $12 to $121 billion in compensation<\/li>\n
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Tokyo (CNN)<\/b> — 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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
That amount of cash, said Negishi, is “not enough.”<\/p>\n
The local official noted that a preemptive payout of 20 million yen may work out better for some communities, seeing as those with a smaller population will be able to give more money per person than Namie. Still, Negishi said it is logistically difficult to force local governments to distribute the money — saying that should be Tokyo Electric’s responsibility.<\/p>\n
The utility, which is one of the world’s largest power companies, acknowledges that more compensation likely will be coming — an amount, and a process, that the Tokyo Electric official said would be worked out between the power company and the Japanese government.<\/p>\n
One week ago, a report from Bank of America Merrill Lynch came out that estimated Toyko Electric will face compensation claims of 1 trillion Japanese yen (about $12.13 billion) if the recovery effort takes two months, the financial company’s Tokyo spokesman Takayuki Inoue told CNN. That figure would rise to 2.4 trillion to 3 trillion yen if the process takes six months, and up to 10 trillion yen if the recovery takes two years, according to the report.<\/p>\n
Most likely, tens of thousands of people will have a legitimate claim to this cash. They’ll include those who haven’t been able to work, who have been forced out of their homes or who otherwise have had their lives turned upside down in the problem-plagued, complicated struggle to contain the emission of radiation into the air, ground and water from the Fukushima Daiichi plant.<\/p>\n
The government ordered about 78,000 people who lived within 20 kilometers (12-miles) of the plant to evacuate, due to high air and ground radiation readings in those locales. Another 62,000 lived within a 20- to 30-kilometer (12- to 19-mile) radius — the so-called exclusion zone, where people have been told to stay indoors — an official from Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s office said. Namie is located just outside this 30-kilometer radius.<\/p>\n
Thousands of others have been affected by the crisis. They include fishermen, who have been told not to go within 20 kilometers of the plant and are facing consumers skeptical about the safety of local seafood, especially after authorities announced plans to dump 11,500 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. Farmers, too, have been hit hard by restrictions on the sale and distribution of certain crops because of radiation readings exceeding government limits.<\/p>\n
Tokyo Electric, itself, has suffered as well. The company has admitted it’s been inundated by 40,000 public complaints daily coming into its offices, its stock has plummeted and its faced several protests, including one Sunday in downtown Tokyo that drew about 250 people.<\/p>\n
Last week, chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata acknowledged the financial difficulties and reports that Japan’s government is considering nationalizing the company.<\/p>\n
“(But) we want to make every effort to stay a private company,” he said.<\/p>\n
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