Subject: ＥＥＥ会議（米国ＮＹ州原発の安全性）
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 01:25:38 +0900
From: "kkaneko" <kkaneko@eagle.ocn.ne.jp>

各位

米国では、９．１１以後原子力発電所へのテロ攻撃が懸念されています
ところ、昨日連邦緊急事態管理庁（ＦＥＭＡ）は、ニューヨーク州のインディアン・
ポイント原子力発電所がテロ攻撃に遭った場合、放射線被害から地域住民を保護する
ための措置が十分とは判断できない（州当局からの情報提供が不足しているため）と
の中間報告書をまとめた由。今後、５月１日までに所要の情報が提供されなければ、
この報告書は連邦政府の原子力規制委員会（ＮＲＣ）に提出され、ＮＲＣはこのＦＥ
ＭＡ報告に基づいて当該原発の運転停止を命令することになる由。　詳細は以下の
ニューヨークタイムズ記事で（２月２２日付け。ただし、最初の６分の１程度の
み）。　同記事の全文は次のサイトでどうぞ。
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/22/nyregion/22NUKE.html?th

金子熊夫

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FEMA Says It Can't Approve Emergency Plan on Indian Pt.

By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD

The future of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in
Westchester County grew cloudier last night after the Federal Emergency
Management Agency reported it could not give "reasonable assurance" that
emergency plans for the area around the plant would work.
The agency, issuing a 500-page preliminary finding, said it
based its assessment largely on New York State's failure to provide it with
crucial information, and asked state officials to comply by May 2 before it
sends a final report to the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The
commission, the final arbiter over whether a plant stays open, requires
plants to have a FEMA-approved plan as a condition of its licenses; it has
never closed a plant over emergency planning concerns.

The FEMA report was essentially another volley in an exchange
between the state and federal governments over emergency planning at Indian
Point, which has been a source of growing anxiety in the region over its
safety and vulnerability to a terrorist attack. A range of groups and
elected officials have urged federal regulators to shut down the plant, in
Buchanan, 35 miles north of Midtown Manhattan.