48,000 families lived near emergency nuclear power plant.

The operator of Japanese nuclear power plant “Fukushima-1″ will pay compensation to the families who had to leave their homes due to a series of accidents at the station.

Company Tepco will pay each family, that was affected by the state of emergency at “Fukushima-1″, an amount equivalent to 12 thousand dollars.

The amount of compensation to single citizens will be the equivalent of nine thousand dollars.

The order to pay compensation in the shortest time was given on April 15 by the Ministry of Commerce of Japan.

According to AFP, about 48,000 families lived in the 30-mile evacuation zone around “Fukushima-1″.

Accidents at the nuclear power plant “Fukushima-1″ began on March 12.

They were caused by a powerful earthquake, occurred the day before, which triggered the tsunami.

Explosions and fires at power stations have led to a partial meltdown of fuel in some reactors, and were accompanied by massive emissions of pollutants.

On April 14, the Agency for Nuclear Safety in Japan stated that the content of radioactive materials in water samples in the area of ​​power blocks exceeds the normal level 100 of thousand times.

Earlier, the accident at “Fukushima-1″ got the highest possible rating by the international scale of INES.