050523  世界各国の原子力(軍事・平和利用)の現状データ・べース  
 
一昨日(5/21)ご紹介したReaching Critical Mass (RCM)というグループは非常に強力な国際反核団体(NGO)で、今回のNPT再検討会議についても連日極めて迅速かつ詳細な経過報告をそのホームページに載せておりますが、そのHPには次のような重要な資料も掲載されていますので、ついでにご紹介しておきます。
 
The Model Nuclear Inventory:
Accountability is Democracy, Transparency is Security
2005
http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/legal/npt/nptindex1.html
 
 
これは、全世界で原子力活動を実際に行なっている44カ国について、国別に原子力の軍事利用と平和利用に関わる核物質の種類・数量や原子炉、研究炉、再処理・濃縮・燃料加工施設等々の現状、原子力関係の研究機関とその活動、原子力・核不拡散に関する政策、その他を非常に克明に纏めた報告書で、ここには詳しいデータが満載です。報告書は全体で164ページで、日本については113〜116ページに載っています。日本関係のテータは主にCitizens' Nuclear Information Center (故高木仁三郎氏が創設した原子力資料情報室)の専門家が提供したもののようです。小生もざっと目を通しましたが、どなたか丁寧に目を通して内容を確認して下されば幸いです。
 
ご参考までに、この報告書の序文を掲げておきます。 --KK

The Model Nuclear Inventory is a comprehensive database of all nuclear materials, both military and civilian, in the 44 States recognized as having a significant nuclear capability.

With the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty perceived to be in crisis, what is needed now is a course to strengthen both disarmament as well as non-proliferation obligations. The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, with the contribution and assistance of non-governmental organizations around the world, offer this Model Nuclear Inventory as a tool toward the achievement of a nuclear weapon-free world.

As such a tool, the Model Nuclear Inventory must also include an assessment of the legal- as well as the technical- aspects of the international disarmament and non-proliferation regime. Therefore, the Model Nuclear Inventory also includes a chapter that analyzes the Nuclear Weapon States’ implementation of the Practical Steps to Disarmament, as unanimously agreed upon at the Sixth Review Conference of the NPT in 2000.

By tracking and securing fissile materials around the world, we can help prevent illegal acquisition of these materials. Likewise, irreversible, verifiable disarmament can be possible only after a full accounting of existing stockpiles is taken.

You can download the entire report here or click on the individual chapters to the right. Copies of the Model Nuclear Inventory are available to purchase for $20. Contact Reaching Critical Will to order your copy.