Active Faults and Nuclear Regulation

Yasuhiro Suzuki is a professor at the Disaster Mitigation Research Center of Nagoya University, Japan. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1984 and received a doctoral degree in 1992. He joined Nagoya University as an assistant professor, and then moved to Aichi prefectural University and worked as a lecturer, and then an associate professor there. He was appointed to his current position in 2004. Yasuhiro Suzuki is currently a member of the Science Council of Japan and a member of the long-term evaluation subcommittee of the Earthquake Research Committee of Japan, and joined the regulation standard creation team of the Nuclear Regulation Authority of Japan (NRA) as an external expert. His main research interest is tectonic geomorphology research on active faults and tectonics.

The active fault problem in relation to nuclear power plants: current issues.- Reasons why the threat of active faults has been neglected in Japan.- Actual cases in which active faults were underrated.- Active fault surveys at nuclear power plant sites: Actions taken by the NRA and their impact.- How should we move forward? New regulatory requirement and frameworks.