Clifford Chance

Fukushima: Enactment of Nuclear Compensation Support Institution Law

6 September 2011

In our briefings of April 2011 and June 2011 respectively entitled "Fukushima: Potential Nuclear Liabilities" and "Fukushima: Proposed Governmental Support for TEPCO for Nuclear Liabilities" we discussed various issues relating to the potential liability of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) arising out of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in the Tohoku region of Japan on 11 March 2011 and the draft bill that had been introduced into the Japanese Diet dealing with the funding of those liabilities.

On 3 August 2011, the Japanese Diet approved and enacted the Nuclear Compensation Support Institution Law. The Law aims to support TEPCO in its obligations to compensate for the damage caused by the release of radioactive materials due to the damage which Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant sustained as a result of the Nuclear Accident.

This briefing will further discuss the contents of and other issues under the Law as finally enacted by the Diet, comparing it to the original draft bill of the Law first submitted to the Diet.

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