[S-CG56] Nuclear Power Plants in Japan and Earth Science: Given the limits of earthquake and volcano science

[SCG56-06] Discussion

*Hitoshi KAWAKATSU¹, Satoshi KANESHIMA², Daisuke SUETSUGU³, Manabu HASHIMOTO⁴ (1.Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 2.Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyushu, 3.Institute of Research on Earth Evolution, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 4.Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto)

To ensure the safety of nuclear power plants in an earthquake/volcano prone country like Japan, understanding of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions phenomenon, and predictions of disaster based on it are essential. But the understanding is very limited, and thus predictions of disaster have huge uncertainties. We discuss how this situation should be considered, dealt with and communicated among earth scientists, related engineers, policy-makers and the society.