Re-examining Local Communities in Response to the Nuclear Power Plant Evacuation Plan

2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K04058
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Niigata University
• Principal Investigator: MATSUI Katsuhiro 新潟大学, 人文社会科学系, 教授 (50238929)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2021-03-31
• Keywords: 原発避難 / 福島第一原発事故 / 地域コミュニティ / 関係の再構築

Outline of Final Research Achievements

For an evacuation plan from a nuclear power plant accident to be effective, it is necessary to change the local community and residents' awareness where damage is expected. Through continuous survey research on evacuees from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, this study has clarified the difficulties during evacuation, the situation of evacuees that has become more complex and diverse with the passage of time, and the problems of isolation and latent evacuees with the prolonged evacuation. In addition, this study suggests that the solution to the problem lies in overcoming the self-responsibility of the victims and reconnecting them with each other and with non-affected people.

Free Research Field

社会学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、原発事故による長期・広域避難を経験した個人の「語り」にもとづいて深刻な被害を明らかにし、そこから再生するための課題を探ったところに特徴がある。10年にわたる避難生活の個人史を継続的にインタビュー調査した研究は、他にあまり類を見ない。また本研究による知見は、新潟県が設置した原発事故検証委員会の議論にも活かすことができた。避難生活の検証は、原発立地地域の住民及び地域コミュニティが、原発事故からの避難を「自分ごと」として捉え直すことにも道を開いた。