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 professionals from many countries in the world, have contributed to form the ground on which we can pursue our way to furthering the global prosperity.

Recently, the 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.

While, we have kept doing inexhaustible efforts on nuclear disarmament and the abolition of nuclear weapons for more than the last 60 years. Behind them, we widely share the deep sadness and unrecoverable feeling of loss by looking into the reality of anti-human aspects of atomic bombings on the days in August, 1945.

However, so far we have not always well collaborated simultaneously in the peaceful use of nuclear energy and the abolition of the nuclear weapons. Namely, it seems that we have not been so much successful in having an effect on a symbiotic process in advancing the peaceful use and the abolition of nuclear weapons.

At the G8 summit in 2007, the perspective view has become obscured that we can resolve the global environmental issues within the conventional G8 framework. We realized that we can not go farther without dialogues and engagements with a number of rising countries, such as India, China, and Mexico.

Other urgent issues concerning human security, for instance, reducing the poverty and resolving the local conflicts, are on the similar tracks.

We are requested to ease the burden on the global environment and to reduce the threats on the human existence endangered by the enlarging gaps between peoples in poverty and prosperity. We are pressed to think over it and make a certain policy to preserve global environment and resolving poverty and conflicts from each standpoint with the system of values.

Naturally, such issues have been coped with by governments of nation states and their related administrative organizations. Nonetheless, I believe there are still issues that have not been dealt with by them. For example, who has ever sincerely tried to find resolutions of the problem to securely deliver electricity widely in a very poor country which has less capital power. Such a country is out of interest of developed countries with much funds, because it is not a target of investment. This is a kind of flaw of market mechanism in the capitalism.  Off course, there are efforts to deploy wind and other renewable power units in such countries, but those systems are not enough to sustain the wide requirements for the electricity. The nuclear energy in the form of electricity and the various benefits by radiation applications should be shared and enjoyed by many people, not in limited countries. I have been thinking how we can realize nuclear energy and radiation application systems with, say, “full of affection.” Still I have not reached to obtain some definite answer. But it is worth while to go ahead to seek for the way to the answer.

The objective of this Non-Profit Organization (NPO) is to further the trial to make bridge between peaceful use of nuclear energy and the abolition of nuclear weapons and then to reach a new dimension of the use of nuclear energy as well as the radiation applications. Thus, under this purpose, we pursue to sustain us and our coming generations for long-lasting future. Our mission is to grope for the real value of nuclear energy as the viable sources of electric power and radiation and then raise and share the value. Such nuclear energy may be sympathetic with the global environment and gentle to the future generations.

With your understanding of our ideal, we would like to ask you support our conducts and efforts for the creation and presentation of new awards that will advance the Atoms for Peace and the fund raising for supporting young scholars. Also join us to launch lectures and symposiums, then to put them into practice to be useful widely among people of concern. In this sense, we welcome any comments and suggestions from you, with sharing minds and methods for advancing the ideal and practice. In this process, we can try to seek for the new dimension in the relation between humanity and nuclear energy.

July 27, 2007

Tetsuo Sawada

Representative Board of IISP