| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The Section 3 of the Nuclear Compensation Act of Japan does not limit the amount of liability of nuclear operators. After the Fukushima accident, the Japanese Government is preparing a reform of the nuclear compensation regime. The main issue is whether the current system of the unlimited liability of nuclear operators should be maintained or not. To answer this question, it is important to clarify how the current system was established . Our method is a historical survey of legislative documents discovered by this study. Our finding is the conflicts among the Ministries at the time of formation of the regime in 1961. The Atomic Energy Commission of Japan proposed the limited liability system with mandatory governmental aid to nuclear operators. But, the Ministry of Finance raised strong opposition to the proposed system and the Cabinet Legislation Bureau considered the limitation of liability as inconsistent with the Constitution of Japan.
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