停止期間除外「考えにくい」　原発運転延長で規制委員長

　原発の運転期間延長を巡り、経済産業省が審査などに伴う稼働停止期間を除外する案を検討していることについて、原子力規制委員会の山中伸介委員長は９日の定例記者会見で、「カレンダー通りの規制以外は考えにくく、基本的にそれを変えるつもりはない」と否定的な見方を示した。（2022/11/09-19:14）

Shinsuke Yamanaka, chairman of Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority, has expressed a negative view about the industry ministry's plan to extend the operating life of nuclear reactors beyond the current 60-year limit practically by excluding suspension periods.
   "It is hard to think of regulations other than those based on a calendar, and we have no intention of changing (the regulations) in principle," Yamanaka told a news conference Wednesday.
   At a regular meeting on Nov. 2, the NRA broadly approved a basic policy requiring nuclear power plant operators to obtain approval for operations within every 10 years after such facilities reach 30 years old even if the current maximum operation limit of 60 years is scrapped.
   The basic policy is expected to be formalized as early as Wednesday.
   The industry ministry presented at an expert panel meeting Tuesday the plan to allow nuclear reactors to be in operation beyond the 60-year limit by counting out periods of suspension caused by such factors as safety checks by the NRA and courts' injunctions to halt operations.