Nuclear Claims May Cost Firm $93 Million
From Times Wire Reports
The company that ran the uranium-processing plant that was the site of Japan’s worst nuclear accident expects to pay at least $93 million in compensation claims, Kyodo News agency reported. The Sept. 30 accident at the JCO Co. facility in Tokaimura, 80 miles northeast of Tokyo, killed one worker and exposed scores to radiation. Workers violated safety regulations by mixing nitric acid and enriched uranium in buckets, setting off an uncontrolled atomic reaction.
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