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* Plan calls for fund to facilitate compensation -Nikkei
* Funded via govt-backed loans, premiums from utilities -Nikkei
* TEPCO would issue preferred shares to fund -Nikkei
* Fund would recoup investment via TEPCO dividend payouts -Nikkei
* TEPCO to hold news conference at 0400 GMT (Updates with details)
TOKYO, April 15 (Reuters) - Japan may set up a government-backed insurance fund to inject money into Tokyo Electric Power and facilitate compensation payouts stemming from the disaster at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the Nikkei newspaper reported.
The plan, the latest of several that have been floated within the government, aims at saving Tokyo Electric from financial ruin by having the government initially shoulder an expected massive compensation bill, which the utility will repay over several years via dividend payouts, the paper said.
Tokyo Electric, Asia's largest utility also known as TEPCO, is yet to determine compensation costs after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami tore through its plant in northeast Japan, causing radiation leaks and forcing local residents and businesses to evacuate.
The company said on Friday it will hold a news conference at 0400 GMT on provisional compensation payments.
JP Morgan has estimated TEPCO could face 2 trillion yen ($24 billion) in compensation losses in the current financial year that started this month, while Bank of America-Merrill Lynch has said the bill could reach $130 billion if the crisis drags on.
Under the draft plan reported by the Nikkei, the government would set up an insurance fund that would be funded by government-guaranteed loans from private banks and premiums from other utilities that operate nuclear power plants.
The insurance fund would handle the initial outlay of compensation payments, which would be recouped through dividend payments spread out over several years from TEPCO on preferred shares to be newly issued to the fund, the Nikkei said.
The reported plan is the type of support that S&P analyst Hiroki Shibata said he assumed when the rating agency cut TEPCO's debt rating to BBB+ on April 1.
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