FUKUSIMA能拯救世界嗎？轉向非核社會的世界史

Can FUKUSIMA Save the World? Toward an Nuclear Phase-Out Society

本文透過德國能源政策在日本三一一東北大震之後的轉折，指出福島事件有可能帶動世界走向全面的非核社會，因而使得FUKUSIMA（福島的英文拼音）這個名詞成為世界史一個重要轉折點。不同於車諾比事件，作者認為福島核電廠所採取的世界通用規格以及因複合型災難所引發的核災震撼，足以引起全世界對於此事件的重視，並回頭檢視反省自身的能源政策，而德國梅克爾政府在一夕之間的改弦易轍就是最好的明證。考察德國決定在二○二二年全面廢除核能電廠的經驗，作者認為FUKUSIMA促使德國從「倫理」的角度看待「能源安全供給」的問題，勢必改變傳統上以技術看待能源問題的盲點，而倫理的思考也必會帶動世界轉向非核社會可能，日本正逐漸從此角度看待問題。因此作者相信，FUKUSIMA既能改變德國的核子動力政策，日後也可能在德國的政策轉換刺激下改變日本的核能政策，進而改變臺灣及全球的核子動力政策。

This article examines the change of the nuclear power policy in Germany to demonstrate why the FUKUSIMA nuclear disaster triggered by 311 Tōhoku earthquake of Japan might save the world. The author argues that the shocking impact of FUKUSIMA directly leads the Merkel coalition to change their nuclear policy immediately. Rethinking the ”ethics” in power policy, the Germany government decides to close all their nuclear power plants by 2022, which means Germany will be toward a nuclear phase-out society. The author believe that the demonstration effects of Germany power policy will feed back to the policy making about nuclear power in Japan and dream that the same feedback will spread out to other countries with nuclear power plants projects, such as Taiwan.