Transparency of Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy in East Asia

Year
2006
Author(s)
Ryoji Aso - Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Naoko Inoue - Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Keiichiro Hori - Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Hisaharu Dosho - Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Kiyokazu Ota - Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Abstract
“Nuclear Renaissance” is one of the words of the current fashion. The movement on the nuclear energy development in the world makes us to foresee the great development of the nuclear generation in next decades. Many of prospects show that the Asia may become the largest region in the world on the nuclear power generation capacity in few decades. Three countries and one region that are China, Korea, Taiwan and Japan use the nuclear power generation at present in the East Asia. The total capacity of these four is 78GW at present, and it may become almost double at 2030. Use of nuclear power generation is one of the borderless issues from safety, security and nonproliferation point of view. But current nuclear energy cooperation in this region is limited in the application of radiation utilization area. Regional cooperation should be strong measure to promote nuclear energy with enhancing confidence building. Nuclear transparency is still the basic and fundamental measure for confidence building. Its process takes time and need patient each other, but the result should be reliable and steady. Continuous efforts are needed, however, beneficial. This paper describes the analysis of nuclear transparency features and structure, and discusses the principle approaches to enhance nuclear transparency in this region.