Petition Against Restarting Sendai Nuclear Power Plant

Petition Against Restarting Sendai Nuclear Power Plant


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Fukuoka Study Group for Nuclear Issue
July 30, 2015


Restarting the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant (Sendai NPP) in Kyushu Island, Japan, under the current circumstances is a grave mistake, not only from the scientific and technical point of views, but also legally and institutionally. Ethically and morally it is bankrupt.
First of all, as the “negative legacy”, the amount of nuclear wastes should not be increased above the present level. Restarting the Sendai NPP would also lead to a nuclear catastrophe worse than that of the Fukushima nuclear accident. This is because the present assumptions about and the prepared countermeasures against expected disasters that would result in nuclear accidents are totally inadequate, and especially the countermeasures against severe accidents including aircraft collisions and terrorist strikes do not fill even the international standards. Preparations and drills for the nuclear disaster prevention and evacuation plans are alarmingly insufficient. In particular, responses to combined NPP accidents arisen from natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes and the evacuation plans for disaster-vulnerable people are far from satisfactory.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) subservient to the logic of the nuclear proponents has approved the application of Kyushu Electric Power Company (KyEPCO) in an illegal and unjust manner. The NRA allowed grace periods even for the safety measures required under the regulatory standards and is reluctant to review the validity of the evacuation plan. Concerned citizens felt compelled to file a legal injunction against the NRA to have the restart approval rescinded and the review process suspended, but there has been no response to the injunction to this day. Ignoring the many council resolutions of the surrounding municipalities, KyEPCO has not held meetings to explain their position to local residents. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), which should be supervising KyEPCO, has not issued orders for improvement of KyEPCO’s inappropriate business management, which shows abandoning its social responsibility and a bold disrespect for democratic civil society.
We must not repeat mistakes similar to the Fukushima nuclear disaster. In order to prevent accidents caused by human errors or natural disasters, we must respect ethical requirements in all situations with respect to technical and political judgments so that the safety will be the top priority over economic and other considerations. It is necessary for us to have a social mechanism in that fair and correct judgment, speech, and action will not be suppressed but will positively be evaluated.
As the goal of Japan’s energy policy, “3E”, standing for “Energy Security, Economy, and Environmental Conservation”, have been emphasized, but, after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the goal should be “3E+S” by adding “Safety” to “3E”. At the Fukushima site, however, the danger of the spent -fuel pools (fires caused by the zirconium around the nuclear fuel) still exists, and the total mount of radioactive contaminated water continues to increase. The state of the molten nuclear fuel has not yet been ascertained and there is the fear of reaching the critical condition again. Thus, the overall situation is not yet far from being under secure control. The total number of the nuclear accident evacuees, including voluntary evacuees, is still well over 100,000, and these evacuees are not being properly taken care of.
Yet, the Abe administration and the nuclear power plant manufacturers are intending to restart Japan’s NPPs and export NPPs to other countries, a clear sign of their conscience paralyzed. Whenever certain scientific and technical problems are exposed in specific terms, they tend to react to the matter inappropriately. Especially if the nature of the issues turns out to be embarrassing for them, they may even try to deceive the public at large. They neglect the public safety and environmental damages for the sake of shortsighted profits and protecting their position. They have no ethical integrity.
Germany has decided to move toward the phaseout of NPPs in compliance to the conclusion of the ethics committee. Learning from Germany, it is very necessary for Japan to work out Japan’s energy policy in a framework of “4E+S” by adding one more E, meaning “Ethics”, to “3E+S”. It would be very difficult for Japanese people and the government to shake off inappropriate customs persisted up to the present and to reflect on their faults and weaknesses. But it is imperative to respect ethical rectitude and to make judgment that puts the safety to the top priority. The Sendai NPP has the risk of the world’s greatest volcanic activity in the region and major eruptions are also serious possibility. If a nuclear accident occurs by the impact of an eruption, there is the fear that volcanic ash heavily contaminated with radioactive substances will fall all over the world. Stopping the restart of NPPs is much a simpler and more feasible way than any countermeasures of disasters. This is also the judgment that pays due respect for the ethical aspect of the issue.
The Japanese government, even at the expense of violating the so-called peace constitution, is eager to recognize the right to collective self-defense and is advancing along the path to dispatch troops overseas. However, this will increase the number of powers that view Japan as an enemy and heighten the danger that NPPs might be attacked. What we need to do is a shift from a kind of control, relying on the nuclear power that would bring about the danger of human extinction, to the control based on conscience and rationality. Humanity is prone to makes mistakes and to harbor self-serving and evil intentions. We believe firmly that, in order to materialize a peaceful world where people can continue to live in security, the only path forward such world is precisely to ban manufacture, storage, and use of nuclear materials which are dangerous and hard-to-manage.
It will become the hope of the world that Japan, that has experienced Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima, will lead the way in implementing this ban. Verdicts to suspend the operation of the Ohi and Takahama NPPs have been handed down by the courts. On the other hand, in the trial demanding suspension of the restart of the Sendai NPP, the court rejected the suspension in an unjust decision. In the current situation, where the restart of the Sendai NPP may be forcibly implemented as early as sometime in August, the last potential hope that we have is the voices of citizens all over the world against the implementation. We request that you lobby the relevant organizations by referring to the materials and the list of contacts on the following pages.

References

Organizations Protest Approval of Sendai Nuclear Power Plant’s Conformation to Regulatory Standards
http://greenaction-japan.org/en/2014/07/joint-statement-protesting-nuclear-regulatory-authoritys-draft-approval-of-sendai-nuclear-power-plants-conformation-to-new-nuclear-regulatory-standards/

Greenpeace releases confidential IAEA Fukushima-Daiichi accident report
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/IAEA-Fukushima-Daiichi-accident-report/blog/53055/

Technical Issues of Japanese Seismic Evaluations from the Point of Global and Japanese Standards
http://www.greenpeace.org/japan/Global/japan/pdf/20150428-seismic-evaluation-en.pdf

Implications of Tephra (volcanic ash) Fall-out on the Operational Safety of the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant
http://www.greenpeace.org/japan/Global/japan/pdf/Volcano_Ash_report_by_John_Large.pdf

The Application and Conformity of the Nuclear Regulation Authority’s New Safety Standards for Nuclear Power Plants with the International Atomic Energy Specific Safety Guide SSG-21, 2012
http://www.greenpeace.org/japan/Global/japan/pdf/large_submission_Sendai_injunction_case.pdf

Public Comments for the Draft Report on Compliance of Sendai Nuclear Power Station with the New Regulatory Requirements Nuke Info Tokyo No. 162 
http://www.cnic.jp/english/?p=2951

Citizens’ Commission on Nuclear Energy http://www.ccnejapan.com/?page_id=1416

Ishibashi & Sato: Concerns over Restarting the Sendai Reactors
Katsuhiko Ishibashi: Seismologist, Emeritus professor, Kobe University / Satoshi Sato: Nuclear Engineer, Consultant & Former GE Engineer
http://historical.seismology.jp/ishibashi/archive/150427FCCJ,pc.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkTorYkD3zI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nV018TVMec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RH3fVIU5_M&feature=youtu.be&_yput=16557
http://historical.seismology.jp/ishibashi/archive/150427FCCJ,ishibashi.pdf

Japan Earthquake Expert Says Nuclear Watchdog Ignoring Risk
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-30/japan-earthquake-expert-says-nuclear-watchdog-ignoring-risk

Japanese Governor Ito ignores lessons of Fukushima to approve the Sendai reactor restarts
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/japanese-governor-ito-ignores-lessons-of-fuku/blog/51281/

Japanese regulator caves to the nuclear industry and government pressure – but still no restart for Sendai
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/Sendai-reactor-restart/blog/50534/


List of Contacts

Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet 
https://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/forms/comment_ssl.html
(Information on contaminated water leakage at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station)
http://japan.kantei.go.jp/ongoingtopics/waterissues.html

KYUSHU ELECTRIC POWER CO. INC. 
http://www.kyuden.co.jp/en_index.html
http://www.kyuden.co.jp/library/image/img_book/ebook/sendai_gaiyou_ei/wysiweb_std_viewer.html
https://www.facebook.com/kyuden.jp

Nuclear Regulation Authority 
http://www.nsr.go.jp/english/index.html qainfo@nsr.go.jp

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry 
https://wwws.meti.go.jp/honsho/comment_form/comments_send.htm
(Status of Nuclear Power Stations) http://www.meti.go.jp/english/earthquake/nuclear/index.html

Kagoshima Prefecture Government 
http://www.pref.kagoshima.jp/foreign/english/index.html
(International Affairs Division) mzma@po.pref.kagoshima.jp

Satsumasendai City 
kokusai@city.satsumasendai.lg.jp koho@city.satsumasendai.lg.jp
https://www.facebook.com/SatsumasendaiCity

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (Manufacturer in Sendai nuclear power plant)
(Inquiry: Nuclear Power Generation) http://www.mhi-global.com/inquiry/inquiry_nuclear.html







川内原発が動く前に声をあげ行動しよう

川内原発が動く前に声をあげ行動しよう

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福岡核問題研究会
2015年7月25日


 現状での再稼働は科学的・技術的にはもちろん、法的にも制度的にも、さらには倫理的・道義的にも間違っています。まず、「負の遺産」としての核廃棄物をこれ以上増やすべきではありません。また、このまま川内原発を再稼働すれば、福島原発事故を上回る大災害を招く恐れがあります。それは、原発事故の原因となる災害や問題などの想定と対策が甘過ぎ、過酷事故対策や航空機の衝突・テロ対策などが国際基準にも満たないためです。原子力防災・避難計画の備えと訓練などが全く不十分だからです。特に、噴火・地震等による原発事故と天災の複合災害への対応や、災害弱者の避難計画などが問題です。
 原子力規制委員会は推進側の論理に負けて、違法で不当な審査で九州電力の申請を許可し、規制基準が必要とする安全対策にさえ猶予期間を与え避難計画の有効性は審査していません。やむを得ず市民が原子力規制委員会に許可取消しと審査手続き中止を法的に昨年申立てましたが、申立ての回答はいまだに放置されたままです。九州電力は多くの周辺自治体の議会決議を無視して住民説明会を開催しません。九州電力を監督すべき経済産業省は、民主社会を冒涜し社会的責任を放棄する不適切な事業運営の改善を命令していません。
 福島原発事故を招いた過ちを繰り返してはなりません。人災や自然災害などによる事故を防ぐためには、安全性を経済性などより優先するように、技術的・政治的判断などのあらゆる場面で倫理性を尊重しなければなりません。正しい判断と言動が立場を損ない潰される代わりに、守られ評価される仕組みが必要です。
 日本のエネルギー政策の目標は「3E」、つまり「エネルギー安全保障(Energy Security)」「経済性(Economy)」「環境適合性(Environmental Conservation)」を重視しましたが、福島原発事故の後に「安全性(Safety)」を入れて「3E+S」と言われています。しかし、福島では核燃料保管プール(核燃料のジルコニウム火災など)の危険性が残り、放射能汚染水は増え続けています。溶けた核燃料の状況は把握されておらず再臨界の恐れがあり、状況はコントロールされていません。自主避難者含め十数万人以上の原発避難者が救われていません。
 それでも安倍政権や原発メーカーなどが原発の稼働と輸出を企てているのは、良心がマヒしている証拠です。科学的・技術的に具体的な問題が指摘されても都合悪ければ不正やごまかしが横行し、目先の利益と立場を守るために他者の犠牲や環境破壊を見過ごす原因は倫理性の欠如です。
 よって、倫理委員会の結論で脱原発を決断したドイツに見倣い、日本でも倫理(Ethics)を加えて(4E+Sで)エネルギー政策を考える必要があります。これまでの悪しき慣習を断ち切り自らの欠点や弱さを反省し、倫理的な正しさを尊重し、安全性を優先して判断することは大変で難しいことです。川内原発は世界で一番の火山リスクがあり大噴火も想定されます。噴火の影響で原発事故が起きた場合、放射能まみれの火山灰が世界中に降り注ぐ恐れがあります。再稼働中止は、こうした災害に対処するよりは簡単で実現可能な道であり、倫理性を尊重する判断です。
 日本政府は平和憲法に違反してでも集団的自衛権を認めさせて、海外に派兵できる道を進めていますが、これは日本を敵視する勢力が増えて原発が攻撃される危険性を増します。核攻撃を防ぐために核武装すべきとの考えもありますが、人類絶滅の危険さえある可能性が高い力によるコントロールから、良心と理性に基づいたコントロールに転換すべきです。間違いを犯し利己的で悪意を抱いてしまう人類が、安心して住み続けられる平和な世界を実現するためには、危険で管理の難しい核物質の製造・保管・利用の禁止こそが唯一の正しい道であると考えます。
 ヒロシマ・ナガサキ・フクシマを経験した日本が、率先してこれを実行することが世界の希望になります。大飯・高浜原発では運転を差し止める判決が出ましたが、川内原発の再稼働中止を求めた裁判は不当な判断で否決されました。川内原発の再稼働が8月早々に強行されうる現状で、最後に期待できるのは国内外の市民の声です。次頁からの内容とリストを参考に、関係各所への働きかけをお願いします。



「川内原発の再稼働問題などに関する参考サイト」

・福岡核問題研究会
http://jsafukuoka.web.fc2.com/Nukes/
・原子力市民委員会
http://www.ccnejapan.com/
・再稼働阻止全国ネットワーク
http://saikadososhinet.sakura.ne.jp/ss/
・川内原発に関する異議申立て
http://objection-to-nuclear-regulation.jimdo.com/
 1月21日意見陳述(録音)
http://1drv.ms/1zMSmOf
 5月26日意見陳述(録音)
http://1drv.ms/1dEn7e2
 保安規定の認可取消を求める異議申立書
http://1drv.ms/1HXU4Lq
・原子力規制を監視する市民の会
http://kiseikanshi.main.jp/
・原発なくそう!九州川内訴訟
http://no-sendaigenpatsu.a.la9.jp/
・国際環境NGOグリーンピース
http://www.greenpeace.org/japan/ja/news/blog/staff/blog/53052/
・3.16 - さよなら原発!かごしまパレード
http://goodbyenukes-kagoshima.jimdo.com/
・原子力資料情報室
http://www.cnic.jp/
・さよなら原発!福岡
http://sayonaragenpatu.jimdo.com/


「再稼働中止を働きかけて頂きたい関係機関」

・首相官邸(ご意見・ご要望)
https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/forms/goiken_ssl.html
・九州電力 092-761-3031 (原子力情報)
http://www.kyuden.co.jp/nuclear_index.html
 (お問い合わせ)
https://www1.kyuden.co.jp/php/inquires/index.php/form/input/104
・原子力規制委員会 (問い合わせ先)03-5114-2190
https://www.nsr.go.jp/ssl/contact/
・経済産業省(ご意見)
https://wwws.meti.go.jp/honsho/comment_form/comments_send.htm
 9月12日付_経済産業大臣から鹿児島県知事への再稼働要請文書(鹿児島県HP)
http://www.pref.kagoshima.jp/aj02/infra/energy/atomic/documents/42584_20141118140619-1.pdf
・鹿児島県(知事への便り)
http://www.pref.kagoshima.jp/chiji/tayori/tayori/index.html
 (知事公室広報課)099-286-2093 FAX: 099-286-2119 メール: kohoka@pref.kagoshima.lg.jp
 川内原子力発電所 再稼働について
http://www.pref.kagoshima.jp/infra/energy/atomic/index.html
・薩摩川内市(広聴広報グループ)0996-23-5111 FAX: 0996-20-5570 メール: koho@city.satsumasendai.lg.jp
http://www.city.satsumasendai.lg.jp/www/contents/1096868307578/index.html
 (原子力)
http://www.city.satsumasendai.lg.jp/www/genre/0000000000000/1209705472764/index.html
https://www.facebook.com/SatsumasendaiCity
・三菱重工(川内原発のメーカー)
http://www.mhi.co.jp/inquiry/inquiry_nuclear.html

7.25核問題研究会例会

7月25日に以下の話題で核問題研究会が開催されました.

(1)2015年NPT会議について(報告:佐藤)
(2)福岡の断層と液状化問題(報告:森田)
(3)川内原発再稼働をめぐる状況について(報告:豊島,中西)
(4)川内原発再稼働に反対する声明文について(報告:北岡)

7.11核問題研究会例会

7月11日に以下の話題で核問題研究会が開催されました.

(1)脱原発と動的エネルギーミックス(報告:岡本良治氏)
(2)エクセルギー(有効エネルギー)の有用性について(報告:岡本良治氏)


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