Japan to help TEPCO pay nuclear victims

Japan to help TEPCO pay nuclear victims
Tokyo (AFP) May 13, 2011 - Japan launched a rescue plan Friday to help nuclear plant owner TEPCO foot the bill for the Fukushima disaster, and started the shutdown of another atomic plant to prevent a similar calamity. Embattled operator Tokyo Electric Power Company faces compensation payments worth tens of billions of dollars for victims of the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl a quarter of a century ago ... more

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