Nuclear power generation and co-existence with local area

In addition to originally strong anxiety and unreliability on nuclear power generation, frequent accidents and troubles in the old Nuclear Reactor and Fuels Development Incorporation (the new Nuclear Fuel Cycle Development Incorporation), a fact that numbers of opposition group was over a half at citizen's vote conducted first in Japan and at Maki-machi in Niigata prefecture in August, 1996 on location of a nuclear power generation of the Tohoku Electric Co., Ltd., and so forth, affects some ripple effects to make difficult to form consensus on new location of a nuclear power generation. On making consensus of such location, every electric companies practise good communication with location areas, communication and other organizations, and so forth, promote positive information supplies and conversation type understanding works, and effort to acquire reliability for people of the location areas. Together with such efforts, they accumulate steadily safe operation results of the present nuclear power plants and develop nuclear PA (public acceptance) actions, local area promotion supporting countermeasures, and so forth. Here was introduced on a part of actions aiming at assistance to and co-existence with local areas promoted by every electric companies on various forms. (G.K.)