Political and Technological Development of Deep Geological Repository

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K01125
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology/History of science and technology
• Research Institution: Nihon University
• Principal Investigator: KOJIMA Chieko 日本大学, 商学部, 教授 (70318319)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 科学技術史 / 原子力エネルギー / 高レベル放射性廃棄物 / 使用済核燃料処分 / 日仏比較

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study examined political and technological development of deep geological repository in both France and Finland. In France, because of high radiation dose from reprocessing spent nuclear fuel, local residents opposed to accept the final disposal of high-level radioactive waste. To avoid this opposition, France established so called the Bataille Act of 30 December 1991 and pushed the reversible deep geological repository. As for Finland, taking direct method for disposing of spent nuclear fuel, they began to investigate sites for deep geological repository in 1980s and they decided to construct this repository in Eurajoki municipality in 2001. One of the reasons why Eurajoki municipality accepted the repository was that Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) paid a large amount of tax for them. From the comparison of both two countries cases, this study concluded that Japan would follow a kind of French way of reversible deep geological repository.

Free Research Field

科学技術史