Aiming to boost the morale of workers at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday it will raise wages and construct two new office buildings, an eight-story “rest station” and a food service center in the facility’s compound.
Tepco will double the extra pay for dangerous work at the Fukushima plant to ¥20,000 per day. The money, however, will first go to Tepco's contractors and not the workers themselves.
Concerns have recently been raised over bad working conditions at the nuclear plant, which has seen a number of leaks of contaminated water into the nearby sea and soil.
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