抄録
The principal items of the Revised Long-Range Plan for Nuclear Energy of Japan are reported, which the Atomic Energy Commission of Japan published last June after twelve months of discussion. Marked changes that occurred during this period of deliberation to various aspects of Japanese economic society and developments in nuclear energy have already rendered obsolete some parts of the new long-range plan, while informal interference from financial authorities before publication had obliged some of the considerations given to important items to be presented in vague and uncommitting expressions. The author, emphasizing the necessity for changing the basic philosophy underlying the LongRange Plan, gives his views on: nuclear environmental policy and rationalization of licensing procedure, technical and human problems associated with wider application of nuclear energy, a demonstration power plant of the advanced thermal reactor and the urgency in the development of the multi-purpose high temperature reactor.
