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Japan’s new Nuclear Regulation Authority setting new guidelines

Nuclear Regulation Authority to set new guidelines http://japandailypress.com/nuclear-regulation-authority-to-set-new-guidelines-2713469 By Ida Torres  /   September 27, 2012   The newly launched Nuclear Regulation Authority is set to come up with new guidelines on nuclear disaster management, particularly expanding the area for urgent measures in the event of a nuclear accident.
Currently, the area is just at a 8-10 kilometer radius, but after the Fukushima power plant crisis in 2011, they believe the area should be expanded to a 30 kilometer radius.

The authority will also survey a fault under the Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture after an independent survey by KEPCO showed that the fault might be active.

Part of the new guidelines that the authority is expected to draft would be to make these guidelines sanctioned under special regulation so that the local governments and entities would be required to comply and obey the instructions. Also, prefectural and municipal governments will be required to come up with new or revised disaster management
plans so authorities can determine which areas will be under priority measures. They also need to devise detailed evacuation plans for residents, especially those that are in the radius of the power plants.

The government is doing all it can to be more prepared for nuclear meltdown threats, especially after the aforementioned Fukushima events. They abolished the Cabinet Office’s Nuclear Safety Commission, which initially drafted these guidelines, to give way to the Nuclear  Regulation Authority

September 29, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Japan, safety