Peacock's tailings

• Book ID: 104315938
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 136 KB
• Volume: 2000
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0262-1762
• DOI: 10.1016/s0262-1762(00)90220-7

✦ Synopsis

Japan

Uranium processor, JCO has reportedly agreed to pay over $121 million compensation to almost 7000 victims of the country's biggest nuclear accident. Just over a year ago, acid and uranium were wrongly mixed together at a JCO facility, causing a violent reaction that resulted in the death of two people directly, and exposed hundreds more in the vicinity -Tokaimura -to harmful radiation. According to reports, a number of other cases for compensation have yet to be resolved.