著者

室田 武

出版者

同志社大学

雑誌

經濟學論叢 (ISSN:03873021)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.60, no.3, pp.283-319, 2008-12

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論説(Article)2007年現在、瀬戸内海北岸の山口県上関町において、複数の裁判が進行中である。問題は、入会地、神社有地、そして漁業者の生活に影響を及ぼす、中国電力株式会社による原子力発電所の建設計画が発端であった。本稿では、まず、原発は地球温暖化防止に寄与するという中国電力の宣伝が妥当かどうかを、温排水問題を中心に批判的に検討する。さらに、中国電力と地元関係者が争う裁判、ならびに神社本庁をめぐる裁判の過程を整理する。最後に、瀬戸内地方に環境破壊をもたらしかねない原発計画に関する司法判断の問題点を、上級審に着目しながら明らかにする。Fearing an impending environmental and social crisis, some commoners and fishermen in Kaminoseki Town have filed cases at various levels against the Chugoku Electric Power Company, which has announced the plan to build a nuclear power plant on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea. The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, by focusing on the issue of massive warm-water current, the paper inspects the advertisement of the company claiming that electric power generation by nuclear reactors contributes to the prevention of global warming. Second, the paper organizes the cases according to the plaintiffs against the corporation at each level of court, also taking up the problematic standpoints of the National Agency of the Shinto Shrines and a local shrine. Third, the paper attempts to critically examine the attitude of the judiciary toward the problem of nuclear power and shows that the judgments of the higher court have tended to be more in favor of nuclear power than those of the lower courts, at least until today.