EU 원자력안전지침과 우리 법제에의 시사점 연구

Abstract

On 11 March 2011, a devastating earthquake caused a major nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan. The disaster has made a ‘nuclear renaissance’ optimism stopped both in Korea and globally, which has reminded the importance of nuclear safety regime. This article concerns a comparative research on Korea’s Nuclear Safety Regulations mainly based on analyzing the EU’s relevant Safety Regulations. It is also intended to review the present Korea’s nuclear safety regulations and to find out their necessary improvements following the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Overall contents of the article can be divided into two parts. It starts with the assessment of the EU’s two nuclear safety directives in connection with the original framework of EURATOM treaty in 1957 and France’s regulations pertinent to the directives. Furthermore, it kept abreast of the development of EURATOM mainly after the Chernobyl catastrophe with some important initiatives. The most important was the final adoption of the Nuclear Safety Directive 2009/71. And the article analyses the general symbiosis between EURATOM and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the wake of the Fukushima catastrophe. After concise consideration of EU’s nuclear directive regulations with subsidiary normative materials, the article directs to the review of present status on Korea’s nuclear safety regulations, identifying several issues for the streamlining the regulations, such as ‘realigning Nuclear Safety and Security Commission’, ‘streamlining of supplying sources of nuclear plant components’, ‘strengthening the control of nuclear plant decommissioning’, ‘redefining Nuclear Damage Compensation Act’, ‘expansion of radiological emergency planning zone’.