Tokyo. .- The Japanese government today approved the plan of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) to pay an initial compensation of one million yen (8240 euros) to families evacuated by the Fukushima nuclear crisis, local news agency Kyodo. TEPCO, which operates the plant in Fukushima Daiichi will pay 1 million yen per household in damages on a provisional basis, since it is expected to have to face a much larger volume of offsets in the future by the worst nuclear accident Japan's history.
The single-member households receive aid of 750,000 yen (6,200 euros). Banri Kaieda, Economy Minister said today that by the end of the month will be compensated those who lived at a distance of 30 kilometers from the nuclear plant, which includes an estimated 48,000 homes. Some 80,000 people living within 20 miles of the plant have already been evacuated from their homes, while the government approved last April 11 a new plan to evacuate 115,000 of other new towns near the plant.
This initial plan will offset the higher TEPCO power expenditure of about 50 billion yen (412 million euros), Kaieda said. On the other hand, the major agricultural cooperative in Japan yesterday demanded that TEPCO also compensate farmers affected by the government ban the marketing of certain types of vegetables from the northeast.
The Government has requested TEPCO to form a working group to study a compensation program, which funds could be deducted from the benefits of electricity for more than a decade, according to press Japan. 
The single-member households receive aid of 750,000 yen (6,200 euros). Banri Kaieda, Economy Minister said today that by the end of the month will be compensated those who lived at a distance of 30 kilometers from the nuclear plant, which includes an estimated 48,000 homes. Some 80,000 people living within 20 miles of the plant have already been evacuated from their homes, while the government approved last April 11 a new plan to evacuate 115,000 of other new towns near the plant.
This initial plan will offset the higher TEPCO power expenditure of about 50 billion yen (412 million euros), Kaieda said. On the other hand, the major agricultural cooperative in Japan yesterday demanded that TEPCO also compensate farmers affected by the government ban the marketing of certain types of vegetables from the northeast.
The Government has requested TEPCO to form a working group to study a compensation program, which funds could be deducted from the benefits of electricity for more than a decade, according to press Japan.
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