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Philosophy of Technological Development in Fugen |
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ATR is the crystallization of "development of Japanese-made power reactor", which had been the aspiration from the beginning of nuclear power development project. Its basic development policy was supposed to be "consistent self-dependent development from the design to the construction stage while upgrading the domestic technical level." On one hand, there was a need to respond to the demand for the practical use as soon as possible to demonstrate the efficient use of nuclear fuel including plutonium at an early date. That made overseas technologies assimilated in development of Fugen. Under such circumstances, policies "developing technologies for the design and major equipments" and "utilizing the existing techniques as much as possible while assessing and verifying them when necessary" were established. These policies attracted many people in the initial stage of nuclear development and were supported through the design, construction and operation period of Fugen. This is one of the reasons why this unprecedented national project, which requires enormous human resource and capital for a long term, has attained a great success with the cooperation among government, industrial circles and academia as well as the affirmative participation of many people. |
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