| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Based on a detailed analysis of Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant accident, which exploits publicly available documentations of the governmental accident investigation and the video-recorded conferences among the plant, the TEPCO headquarter, and the government, this study carries out intensively behavioral economic investigations into the compilation and implementation of crisis management. One of the most important elements for crisis management manuals is to carefully distinguish "relatively severe accidents" from "severest accidents," and to deliberately prepare manuals for each of the two types. Nevertheless, the TEPCO and the regulatory body classified the two types indiscriminately in advance, and failed to properly respond to the accident, which should have been considered "relatively severe," but was declared as "severest" at the very beginning of the accident. Accordingly, the accident indeed fell into a much more severe consequence than it should have.
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