... rotation between promoters and regulators and selective information release to influence public opinion. New procedures included building up in-house expertise, avoiding experts with close ties to the nuclear industry, opening meetings to the public, and making press conferences open to everyone...

...This book argues that the regulatory reforms taken up in the wake of the Fukushima disaster on March 11, 2011, directly and indirectly raised the costs of nuclear power in Japan. The Nuclear Regulation Authority resisted capture by the nuclear industry and fundamentally altered the environment...

....” The chapter tracks how the NRA stood its ground against attempts to undermine its position of power and, in the process, forced the Abe government, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and government ministries to adapt their strategies. The chapter then shifts to the response of the nuclear industry...