Kan suggests severing NISA from industry ministry

kristopher

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Thu May-19-11 12:11 AM
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Kan suggests severing NISA from industry ministry

Kan suggests severing NISA from industry ministry

Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan says the country's nuclear regulatory agency must be independent from the industry ministry.

Kan told reporters in Tokyo on Wednesday evening that it is inappropriate for the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency to belong to a ministry promoting nuclear power generation.

He said drastic reform of the longstanding practice in nuclear administration will be discussed at an investigative committee to be launched soon...

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/18_36.html

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nadinbrzezinski

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Thu May-19-11 12:47 AM
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1. Well to be honest that be a good change

NISA makes the NRC look like a real independent body.

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Nihil

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Thu May-19-11 04:52 AM
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2. Good suggestion.

Mind you there is an element of gate closures & bolting horses about it
but better late than never.

Obviously Kan doesn't subscribe to the hypothesis that Japan is going
to be a completely abandoned nuclear wasteland for millions & millions
of years and is making a more practical response to the failures of
the past. That is also good.

:shrug:

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