ارزیابی سامانۀ مسئولیت هسته‌ای ژاپن و ایالات متحدۀ امریکا

نوع مقاله : مقاله علمی - پژوهشی

نویسنده

دانش‌آموختۀ دکتری حقوق کیفری و جرم‌شناسی دانشگاه آزاد قشم

چکیده

حوادث تری‌مایل آیلند و فوکوشیما که به ترتیب در سال‌های 1979 و 2011 در ایالات متحدۀ امریکا و ژاپن اتفاق افتاد تاکنون در شمار مهم‌ترین حوادث هسته‌ای تاریخ به‌حساب می‌آیند. در این میان، یکی از مهم‌ترین آثار ناشی از تجربۀ‌ ملموس چنین حوادثی و در پی آن، جبران خسارت‌ ناشی از آن‌ها به ارزیابی و آزمایش نظام مسئولیت مدنی ناشی از حوادث هسته‌ای منصرف می‌شود. به عبارت روشن‌تر، وقوع چنین حوادثی بهتر می‌تواند به این پرسش پاسخ دهد که آیا نظام مسئولیتی موجود با چنین حوادث و خسارت‌هایی سازگار بوده است یا خیر. آشکار است که چنین کاوش‌ها و ارزیابی‌هایی می‌تواند به شناسایی چارچوب یک نظام مسئولیتی متناسب با خسارت هسته‌ای در کشورهایی همچون ایران که از چنین سامانه‌ای بی‌بهره‌اند، بینجامد. به هر روی، در طی جستار حاضر تلاش بر آن است تا با اتکا به روش مطالعۀ توصیفی- تحلیلی، همگام با کاوشی در نظام‌های قانون‌گذاری ژاپن و فدرال ایالات متحدۀ امریکا به تعیین و ارزیابی تأثیر حوادث تری‌مایل آیلند و فوکوشیما بر سامانۀ مسئولیت مدنی هسته‌ای به‌موجب نظام‌های تقنینی یادشده مبادرت شود تا سرانجام به ترسیم ابعاد سنجیده‌ای از نظام مسئولیت متناسب با نوع و میزان خسارت‌های هسته‌ای (اَبَر خسارت) پرداخته شود.

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عنوان مقاله [English]

Assessing Nuclear Liability Systems of Japan and the United States of America

نویسنده [English]

  • Seyed Mustafa Meshkat
Ph.D. in Criminal Law and Criminology at the Islamic Azad University of Qeshm
چکیده [English]

One of the nightmares of humanity in the current century is an occurrence of a nuclear incident. Nuclear incidents depending on the type of nuclear facility and material could have devastating damages. Following to nature and power of nuclear energy, any nuclear incident could impact a large area for a long-term period. Nuclear damages have a variety ranges from environmental pollution to the death of a large group of people. To confront it, initially, we should prevent to occur of these hazardous incidents and then fully prepare to deal with victims of nuclear incidents. In this way, a rapid, timely, and efficient system of compensation is vital. Regarding the scope of nuclear damages, it is necessary to draw a compatible liability model of compensation. In this way, nuclear liability was created in the early 1960s. This sort of liability is a new legal topic that attempts to create a proper system to compensate such victims. However, the international nuclear liability model has been changed several times to date. The occurrence of nuclear incidents especially the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 led to a revolution in the civil liability system for nuclear damages. This incident has expressed shortcomings and gaps in compensation when many people have entitled to a nuclear incident and need to prompt and sufficient compensation. This issue does not only include international law but also encompasses national laws. Thus, following nuclear incidents, national legislations have also been updated. Among them are the United States of America and Japan. These legal systems have experienced two severe nuclear incidents. The Three Mile Island and Fukushima Daiichi incidents, which occurred in the United States and Japan in 1979 and 2011 respectively, are among the most important nuclear events so far. Following the Three Mile Island and Fukushima Daiichi incidents, Either Japan and the United States of America have updated the nuclear liability systems. Therefore, the purpose was to develop the scope of liability of nuclear operators and to establish public funds to rapidly provide compensation to victims of nuclear incidents. Japan and the United States of America are considered two roughly appropriate civil liability for nuclear damages that supportive measures of victims of nuclear incidents are taken into account. Even in some aspects, these legal systems act better compare to international law. For instance, the legislature of Japan has established the nuclear liability model that does not have an upper limit. This issue causes to lift any limitation on the compensation of victims of nuclear incidents. The United States of America has also taken proper measures to compensate victims of nuclear incidents. Among the measures is to provide two tiers of compensation. The aim of this compensation scheme is to take assurance of an efficient compensation of victims resulting from a nuclear incident. As earlier mentioned, the occurrence of nuclear incidents could clearly demonstrate shortcomings and gaps in a legal regime of nuclear compensation. It is better to say, one of the most important effects of the tangible experience of nuclear incidents and their compensations is to evaluate and test the civil liability system resulting from nuclear incidents. In other words, the occurrence of such incidents can better answer the question of whether the existing liability system has been compatible with the severity of such incidents and damages. It is clear that such analyzes and assessments could lead to the identification of a framework for a civil liability system compatible with nuclear damages in countries such as Iran, which are deprived of such systems. Such countries that have not yet experienced a nuclear incident have the opportunity to establish a compensation model with a minimum of shortcomings and gaps. However, this paper attempts to explore the legislative systems of Japan and the Federal of the United States of America and along with that to determine and evaluate the impact of the Three Mile Island and Fukushima Daiichi incidents on the nuclear civil liability system by relying on a descriptive-analytical study method in order to finally establish dimensions of the liability system compatible with the type and amount of nuclear damage (huge damage).
 

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Nuclear incident
  • nuclear liability
  • exclusive liability
  • massive damage
  • compensation and liability compatible with damage
  1. - انگلیسی

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