Subject: EEE会議（Re: 台湾の「脱原発法制化」の動き）
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 12:24:41 +0900
From: "kkaneko" <kkaneko@eagle.ocn.ne.jp>

各位殿

標記テーマに関し、さらに次の情報を提供していただきました（提供者：JNCの小原
氏）。　この情報によれば、今回の「脱原発法案」（正式名称は「非核国家推進法
案」）は、目下台湾で与野党間の最大の争点となっている第４原発建設問題には直接
触れておらず、従って同法案は、かえって第４原発建設を促進する結果になりかねな
いと反原発グループは懸念しており、この問題について全国民投票を実施すべきだと
主張している由。ご参考まで。
金子熊夫

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Cabinet okays law to phase out nuclear power
2003-05-08 / Taiwan News, Staff Reporter / By Dennis Engbarth

The Cabinet approved yesterday a draft basic law to promote a "non-nuclear
home"
that would prohibit the development or use of nuclear weapons, mandate a
gradual
elimination of nuclear power plants and accelerate use of renewable energy
resources.

Environmentalists welcomed the draft law's proposed prohibition on the
development of nuclear weaponry, but expressed concern that the draft did
not
clearly offer a solution to the controversy over the fourth nuclear plant.

The bill was primarily drafted by the Non-Nuclear Home Promotion Committee,
which was established October 11 under the National Commission for
Sustainable
Development.

The commission and the draft law emerged from a compromise Legislative
resolution passed on February 13, 2001 that required the governing
Democratic
Progressive Party to resume construction of the bitterly controversial
fourth
nuclear power plant, but committed the conservative Kuomintang and People
First
Party to concur with the goal of a turning Taiwan into a non-nuclear home.

Premier Yu Shyi-kun (游錫?) said the draft bill aimed to allow that "all our
citizens and their descendants can be free of the threat of nuclear weapons
and
the danger of radiation and to create a living environment of peace,
security
and sustainable development."

The draft basic law would require future governments to abide by several key
policy principles, including commitments not to develop nuclear weapons, to
gradually cease nuclear power generation, to rationally adjust Taiwan's
overall
energy supply and demand strategies, to develop and promote renewable
energies,
to ensure nuclear radiation safety and properly treat and store radioactive
waste materials.

The draft law also includes a procedure for the decommissioning of existing
nuclear power plants that would mandate a cessation of generation after each
nuclear reactor unit reaches a certain level of gross output in kilowatts.

Yu noted that the draft law emphasized that the process of accelerated
decommissioning of Taiwan's nuclear power plants would include guarantees
for
the work rights of affected employees and reduce the impact on society and
the
economy.

Under the procedure, the operating agency, at present the state-owned Taiwan
Power Co, would be responsible for proposing a decommissioning plan,
including
provisions to safeguard the work rights of employees, to the Cabinet three
years
in advance of the forecast plant closure date and secure approval for the
plan
at least a year in advance of closure.

The draft law would also oblige the government to immediately report any
accidents involving nuclear facilities to the people and to responsible
international agencies, such as the International Atomic Energy Commission.

Operators of nuclear facilities would be fully responsible for any loss of
life,
physical injury, health, property or environmental damage and responsible
for
publicizing any such damage, no matter what the cause.

But the article also would require the government to cover any shortfall in
total damage compensation if the operator is unable to do so.

The bill would also require all levels of government to actively include
autonomous civic groups in the formulation of non-nuclear home related
policies.

The draft bill would also establish a commemorative "Non-Nuclear Home Day"
on
February 13.

Taiwan Watch chairman Chang Kuo-lung (張國龍) told the Taiwan News that "the
Taiwan government has declared that it would not develop nuclear weapons
many
times, but to legislate such a commitment will carry more weight
internationally."

But Chang said the draft "has little immediate significance for Taiwan
society
as it does not offer a clear indication of whether the fourth nuclear power
plant will be built, which is the most pressing issue for the anti-nuclear
movement, and it may even be a means to get people to accept the fourth
nuclear
power plant."

"We advocate holding a referendum to allow the people as a third party
resolve
this issue over which the governing party and the opposition parties remain
deadlocked," said Chang.