Genshiryoku mura, the nuclear village, is the mocking name for the industry, government, academics and media bound together by the interests of nuclear power. A paper in a Japanese sociology journal says the term was jargon used inside Tokyo Electric Power, an insiders’ name in the power industry. Another paper uses the same word for the towns that host nuclear plants.
The Diet’s independent commission on the Fukushima accident found that regulator and regulated had traded places. The regulators had become captives of the power companies.