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In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
Yasuhiko Iso
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 6-12
Progress in Fusion Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A22839
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Japanese fusion development program is being carried out as one of the national projects aming at the realization of fusion power in early 21st century. Major near term objective is to demonstrate reactor grade plasmas in tokamak confinement by JT-60. This project started in 1975, and since then a rapid progress has been made in every field of fusion research and development, supported by wide national concensus. In light of this progress and in expection of the achievement of scientific feasibility within a few years by the large tokamaks, JAEC expressed their intention in the newly revised Long-Term Program that Japan should proceed with the development of the next machine, the Fusion Experimental Reactor (FER), to achieve the self-ignition and to demonstrate the engineering feasibility of fusion reactor within this century.