A Comparative Study on nuclear energy policy and regulatory administration

• Project/Area Number: 26380180
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Politics
• Research Institution: The University of Kitakyushu
• Principal Investigator: SHIN Dong Ae 北九州市立大学, 法学部, 教授 (80382406)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 南 京兌 京都大学, 法学研究科, 准教授 (50432406)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
• Keywords: 福島原発事故 / 政策変化と政策過程 / 原発の縮小 / 原発の維持 / 原子力規制体制 / 原発の新設 / 原発リスク / 原発コスト / 再生エネルギーと国際市場の再編 / 政権交代と政党支持率の変化 / 政策選好の相違 / Nuclear Energy Policy / 制度変化と連続生 / changing and continuity / 制度強化 / Self-Reinforcing Process / 原子力政策 / 規制行政 / 取引費用

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster in Japan became the critical juncture of nuclear energy policy. Most countries are still arguing about the nuclear energy policy and several countries are already reconsidering the use of nuclear energy.This study analyzes the ‘change of nuclear energy policy and change of regulation system’ for the safety and the security. And this study showed how government reorganizes the institutions to ensure safety and security to react nuclear power plant disasters.
And this analyzed the mechanism to show how the ‘Lock In and Reinforcement of nuclear energy policy’ evolve through the pluralistic process of interesting groups. This study is from the year 1954 which decided nuclear energy policy as a national policy to the year 2016 which is preceding the policy arguments on nuclear energy after Fukushima disaster.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 「日本の国家機構の変化と連続性―官庁形整モデルの適用―」 (2014)
  • Author(s): 南京兌
  • Journal Title: 日本批評 Volume: 第11号 Pages: 304-328
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Energy Policy and its political process in Japan (2014)
  • Author(s): Dong-Ae Shin
  • Organizer: Association of Local Government
  • Place of Presentation: Ulsan Univ. Korea
  • Year and Date: 2014-10-23
• [Presentation] 日本の原子力事故と行政組織変化の政治過程 (2014)
  • Author(s): 南京兌
  • Organizer: Association of Local Government
  • Place of Presentation: Ulsan Univ. Korea
  • Year and Date: 2014-10-23
• [Book] 『日本の国家機構の変化と連続性』 (2015)
  • Author(s): 嚴錫振・南京兌・申東愛・中村虎彰・朴芝慧 共著
  • Total Pages: 204
  • Publisher: ソウル大学出版文化院
• [Book] 「日本の国家機構の変化と連続性」5章「日本の原子力エネルギー政策の連続性と変化に関する研究」 (2015)
  • Author(s): 申東愛(共著）
  • Publisher: ソウル大学出版社