FAPIG's activities for public acceptance of nuclear energy. Analytical results of questionnaire executed at organized visits to nuclear power stations

The First Atomic Power Industry Group (FAPIG) has organized visits to nuclear power plants every November since 1989 as part of its activities for public acceptance of nuclear energy. Visitors were mainly ladies from related companies who had no chance to visit nuclear power plants and were unfamiliar with mechanisms of nuclear power plants and radiation and/or radioactivity. After lectures on overview of energy general and basis of nuclear energy, visits to nuclear power plants had been conducted to understand nuclear energy in the right way. Questionnaire answered before and after the visits were analyzed to obtain significance and results of the activities. (T. Tanaka)