Aiming at self-supporting relationship between local community and nuclear technology, Fukui Prefecture established “Energy Research and Development Centralization Plan” in March 2005 with the goal of transforming the prefecture into comprehensive R & D centralized region for energy with nuclear power in its core and activating the local industries by not confining nuclear power plants just as power-production “factories” but taking advantage of their accumulation. To promote the plan, Energy Research and Development Centralization Project Office was installed at the Wakasa Wan Energy Research Center on July 24, 2005.
As the promotion engine of the plan, Energy Research and Development Centralization Project Office provides comprehensive coordination in all phases of “enhancement of R & D function”, “education and exchange of human resources” and “creating and fostering new industries”, and one-stop service to solve issues of companies within the prefecture in a comprehensive and unified way.