Nuclear Regulation Authority

The Genshiryoku Kisei iinkai (Japanese原子 力 规 制 委员会, dt about "Atomic Energy Regulatory Board ."; Engl Nuclear Regulation Authority ) is an independent authority ( gaikyoku, " State Department ") of the Japanese Ministry of the Environment, which regulates the safety of Japanese nuclear power plants and related facilities and oversees. The Committee headquartered in Roppongi, Minato district, Tokyo Prefecture was on September 19, 2012 avowedly established to strengthen in 2011 criticized in the wake of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima independence of the nuclear regulatory. He takes over the functions performed by the Genshiryoku Anzen - Hoan in the Economic and Industry Ministry, the " nuclear safety committee " ( Genshiryoku Anzen iinkai, Eng. Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan ) of the Cabinet Office and part of the nuclear safety department in the cult and Science Ministry. He also covers decisions about reconnections of - to nuclear power plants - mostly shut down in 2012.

The chairman and four other members of the Committee shall be nominated by the Prime Minister with the consent of both chambers of the national parliament for five -year terms. The chairman is - as among other ministers, ambassadors or judge at the Supreme Court - appointed as ninshōkan formally from Tennō. The actual regulatory authority, the Genshiryoku Kisei -chō (原子 力 规 制 庁), is subordinated to the committee - a similar relationship exists in the Japanese central government between the National Public Safety Commission and the police authority.

The first Chairman of the Committee is the core energy technicians Shun'ichi Tanaka, former Chairman of the Genshiryoku iinkai, an advisory body to the Cabinet Office; first director of the authority Katsuhiko Ikeda, former head of the Tokyo prefecture police.