Social Acceptance and Reversibility of High Level Radioactive Waste Management Policy

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  • バックエンド問題における社会的受容性と可逆性：国際的議論から
  • バックエンド モンダイ ニ オケル シャカイテキ ジュヨウセイ ト カギャクセイ : コクサイテキ ギロン カラ

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<p>Final disposal site selection of High-Level Radioactive Waste (HLW), one of the processes of the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle, is often called the Backend Problem in Japanese. In 2000, enactment of the “Specified Radioactive Waste Final Disposal Act” and the establishment of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO) marked the beginning of the Backend Problem at the institutional level in Japan. Despite institutional arrangements set up, however, no such dramatic progress has made to derive a social solution to deal with the Backend Problem since 2000. Except Finland and Sweden, in which selected the site for a deep geological repository, many OECD/NEA member countries are facing a similar situation the same as Japan. In this situation, an approach based on a concept of reversibility can be a key to finding a breakthrough of the issue. Notably, the French debate on Reversibility Approach presents many useful materials and lessons to find possible solutions to the Backend Problem. This paper analyses international research on Reversibility Approach in Finland and France. Finally, Reversibility Approach in France brings the Backend Problem to the more ethical issue of the intergenerational equity.</p>

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