Problems and Study of Regulations on Nuclear Power Plants

Abstract

  The purpose of this paper is to extract problems of the regulations on nuclear power plants in Japan in order to indicate the direction of the solution as much as possible. This paper includes problems about the duplicated application of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Law and Electricity Utility Law, the examination criteria of nuclear reactor establishment permission, the relation between the establishment permission and the regulations, the double check evaluation system by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, and Nuclear Safety Commission, fuel inspection and in-service inspection, management of the information about insignificant events, and so on.