Estimate of atomic nuclear energy related expenses

When the increases in world population and energy consumption, limited natural sources, environmental problems on the earth as well as the trends of international society were taken into consideration and the global society in the 21st century was surveyed, it is thought important to steadily progress the development of nuclear energy. Based on these aspects, the nuclear energy development of Japan in 1996 was designed aiming at stable secure of energy and qualitative rising of the standard of life and improvement of welfare in human society on the conditions of sticking to peaceful use and safety secure. The fundamental policies were confirmed as follows: 1) development of nuclear energy policies. 2) establishment of an integrated system for light water reactor typed nuclear power generation. 3) development of recycling system of nuclear fuel. 4) development of atomic energy technology and enforcement of its basic research. Based on these principles, the expenses necessary to perform the above policies were estimated to be ca. 5000 x 108 yen in total. The expenses for major facilities concerned were as follows; Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute 1280 x 108 yen, Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation 2384 x 108 yen, National Institute of Radiological Science 171 x 108 yen, National Facilities for Developmental Scientific Research 24 x 108 yen and Institute of Physical and Chemical Research 126 x 108 yen. (M.N.)