Such price reductions were demanded by power companies, which cited as their major reason the current wave of liberalization sweeping the electric power industry. Production work itself has been on the decline. Orders received by Toshiba and Hitachi in the 1990s were only half of those received during the 70s and 80s. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries received no orders. As a consequence, the companies have accelerated staff reduction plans.
Cost reduction leaves less room for safety.
This amount is almost half of that in FY1993, which was 1.74 trillion yen. There are 56,000 workers in the field of nuclear power. This includes 10,000 in the power enterprise and 46,000 in the manufacturing and mining sector. A question in the survey asked whether or not it is possible to construct 20 additional power reactors by 2010. The Commission does not have an independent secretariat.