Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2014

Convener:*Manabu Hashimoto(Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University), Hitoshi Kawakatsu(Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo), Satoshi Kaneshima(Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyushu University), Daisuke Suetsugu(Institute of Research on Earth Evolution, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Chair:Manabu Hashimoto(Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University), Satoshi Kaneshima(Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyushu University)

Since the Fukushima accident, the discussion of the risk of the nuclear power plants against the earthquake and tsunami is drawing the attention of the society. Among them, the risk evaluation of the NPP confronting the source region of interplate megathrust earthquakes is an issue in the immediate future, even for the earth scientists.This session aims to obtain a common recognition on the previous evaluation of risk of interplate earthquakes to NPP, recent evolution of risk assessment since the Fukushima accident on the basis of reviews of invitees. Furthermore, we discuss what we can do as earth scientists based on this recognition.