Nuclear Power Safety and Governance in East Asia

ISBN-13: 9781032596150 / Twarda / 2023 / 280 str.

Opis

Confronting the challenges of nuclear power governance, this book provides pathways to nuclear safety cooperation between countries in East Asia where regional cooperation is challenged by geopolitical tensions.

Spis treści

Introduction

Part 1 Nuclear power risk and nuclear safety communication in East Asia

1. Cause classification and preventive countermeasures of nuclear reactor accidents in China: Comparative analysis with those of Japan and South Korea.

2. Radioactive material leakage impact on Japan, South Korea, and China in the case of nuclear power plant accidents and spent fuel pool fires in this region: Analysis using the HYSPLIT simulation model.

3. Comparative analysis of Chinese, Japanese and South Korean attitudes toward nuclear safety in East Asia: Survey based on a survey of Tokyo, Seoul, and Beijing residents.

Part 2 Nuclear policy and harmonization of nuclear safety standards in East Asia

4. Nuclear policy and nuclear safety regulations in East Asia

5. State of harmonization of Western European nuclear safety standards and results of its analysis

6. Barriers and challenges to harmonizing nuclear safety standards and exchange of nuclear safety technology in East Asia

Part 3 Comparative analysis of nuclear regulation agency and building a nuclear safety system in East Asia

7. Comparative analysis of nuclear regulatory agencies in East Asia from the perspective of independence and transparency

8. Taiwan's denuclearization process and energy supply plan

Appendix: Independence of Taiwan's Nuclear Regulatory Agency

9. Building nuclear safety system in East Asia toward nuclear safety society: Challenges to overcome segmented nuclear safety system.

Conclusion

O autorze

Soocheol Lee is a Professor of Faculty of Economics, Meijo University in Japan. He graduated from Seoul National University and received his PhD at the Graduate School of Kyoto University. He had worked for the Federation of Korean Industry as a team leader of Economic Research Department. He has written many books and papers on energy and environmental policy design and cooperation for sustainable low-carbon economy in East Asia. And he is currently the Vice President of AAERE (Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics).

Weisheng Zhou is a Professor of College of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University in Japan. He is a Foreign Fellow of The Engineering Academy of Japan (EAJ). He graduated from Zhejiang University and received his PhD at the Graduate School of Kyoto University. He has served as a chief researcher and research consultant of Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), a special professor at Osaka University. His books include East Asian Low-Carbon Community (Springer, 2021) and others.

Kiyoshi Fujikawa is a Professor of Faculty of Economics, Aichi Gakuin University in Japan. He graduated from Kobe University in Japan and received his PhD there. He had worked at the Department of Economics and Social Affairs in the United Nations as a statistician before teaching in Japan. He has made significant contributions to application of input-output analysis on environmental economics. And he was the President of PAPAIOS (Pan Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies).