On the irreplaceable blue planet, our unique beautiful earth, we are living as fragile creatures. We are just six billions people, who are the parts of the universe made of chemical elements of about 110 sorts. Our lives are co-existing with and supported by a variety sorts of other creatures, that is, animals, plants and minerals. We are taught that the basic elements that make them have originated from the activities of stars. Fusions and supernovae.  Thus, the star activity forms the basis of energy and material.

For the last five decades, having steadily progressed the way of peaceful use of nuclear energy, we, nuclear workers and professional of many countries in the world, have contributed to form the ground on which we can pursue our way to furthering the global prosperity.

In 2007, the former Prime Minister Mr. Shinzo Abe made a speech entitled “Invitation to Beautiful Country.” In this speech, he noticed that the enlarged application of peaceful and safe use of nuclear energy will play a key role for securing energy sources towards the fertile future of the globe and humanity. He also stressed that it is crucial to build an international framework for it.

Now in United States and some European countries, rising is the era of “Nuclear Renaissance.”  And plans for deploying large number of new nuclear plants are coming up in countries like China and India. In this situation, the importance of global coordination of the nuclear business by Japan is still more increasing.

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