Practical public acceptance activities in Japan Nuclear Fuel Company

JNF PA is characterized by 3 symbolic 'F's if concisely expressed. The first F comes from the Focus F, which stands for JNF's focused or customized attendance to what visitors want. The second F from Friendly F, which symbolizes JNF's simple and easy presentations in an amenable atmosphere without use of specialist language. The last F from First Hand, which means the visitors given the chance to experience themselves in actual touch with uranium. Our nuclear fuel manufacturing facility is one of the limited spots for such an experience. Their encounter with this 'actual reality' is worth a millions of words. Many citizens of Yokosuka have been invited to our facility at every summer holiday season for the past 6 years. 60% of them answered to our survey: 'Yes, I came here with fear in nuclear angry' but 75% admitted 'I now feel easy with it' after they listened to the issues of energy and environment, watched the animated nuclear fuel cycle and toured through our nuclear fuel manufacturing plant. This is an justified encouragement to what we devote in PA. What we should do is two fold. One is to address our PA to younger generations. Another is to support to those PA activities at newly-planned sites for nuclear power generation. For the former case, we now are approaching educational and tutorial personnel to provide pupils with opportunity of touring our facilities. For the latter, we sincerely endeavor to tune up to the visitors from such site areas, with elaboration based on advance information, rather than mere briefings. Like the Japanese tea ceremonial spirit of 'we happen to meet but once for all', why not fulfilling our role from the spot of a nuclear fuel manufacturing facility? (J.P.N.)