Economic scale of utilization of radiation in Japan

The economic scale of the application of radiation was 37 308 million dollars (M$), where the share was 56% for the industry, 7% for the agriculture and 37% for the medicine. The economic scale of the nuclear energy generated by 54 nuclear power plants was 43 018 M$. The share of the application of radiation was 46% and that of the nuclear energy was 54%. The total economic scale was 80 300 M$ or 1.8% of the GDP in 2005. (author)