Nuclear Law BulletinPub Date : 2015-12-26DOI: 10.1787/nuclear_law-2015-5jm26cq6h932
Peter Tzeng
{"title":"Nuclear Arbitration: Interpreting Non-proliferation Agreements","authors":"Peter Tzeng","doi":"10.1787/nuclear_law-2015-5jm26cq6h932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/nuclear_law-2015-5jm26cq6h932","url":null,"abstract":"At the core of the nuclear non-proliferation regime lie international agreements. These agreements include, inter alia, the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, nuclear co-operation agreements and nuclear export control agreements.1 States, however, do not always comply with their obligations under these agreements. In response, commentators have proposed various enforcement mechanisms to promote compliance.2 The inconvenient truth, however, is that states are generally unwilling to consent to enforcement mechanisms concerning issues as critical to national security as nuclear non-proliferation.","PeriodicalId":299751,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Law Bulletin","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131070694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nuclear Law BulletinPub Date : 2015-12-04DOI: 10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2015-5JM26CQBWL9S
Emma Durand-Poudret
{"title":"Towards a new international framework for nuclear safety: Developments from Fukushima to Vienna","authors":"Emma Durand-Poudret","doi":"10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2015-5JM26CQBWL9S","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2015-5JM26CQBWL9S","url":null,"abstract":"On 11 March 2011, the nuclear safety sector was deeply shaken by the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. Because of this accident, 25 years of established certainties in nuclear power plant operational safety that followed the Chernobyl disaster were once again called into question.","PeriodicalId":299751,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Law Bulletin","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123688261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nuclear Law BulletinPub Date : 2015-12-04DOI: 10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2015-5JM26CQG10S1
Ben McRae
{"title":"Entry into force of the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage: Opening the umbrella","authors":"Ben McRae","doi":"10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2015-5JM26CQG10S1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2015-5JM26CQG10S1","url":null,"abstract":"There are 431 commercial nuclear power plants around the world.1 On 14 April 2015, 193 of these power plants were covered by a nuclear liability instrument (118 power plants by the Paris Convention2 and 75 by the Vienna Convention3). With the entry into force of the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC)4 on 15 April 2015, the number of power plants covered by a nuclear liability","PeriodicalId":299751,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Law Bulletin","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125763576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nuclear Law BulletinPub Date : 2015-03-20DOI: 10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2014-5JRTPST439WB
A. Quere
{"title":"Challenges facing the insurance industry since the modernisation of the international nuclear third party liability regime","authors":"A. Quere","doi":"10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2014-5JRTPST439WB","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2014-5JRTPST439WB","url":null,"abstract":"The modernisation of international conventions governing third-party liability in the nuclear field is essentially an attempt to resolve certain shortcomings whilst setting out higher compensation sums and extending the cover for nuclear damage for which compensation is payable. The latest convention revisions occurred in 2004 and led to the adoption of protocols amending the Paris Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy1 and the Brussels Convention supplementing the Paris Convention.2 However, the substance of the current regimes is largely the result of conventions drawn up in the 1960s and, in the eyes of the general public, the changes made in 2004 are mainly concerned with increasing the compensation sums.","PeriodicalId":299751,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Law Bulletin","volume":"45 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133870523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nuclear Law BulletinPub Date : 2015-03-20DOI: 10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2014-5JRTPST6RKD3
Thomas Mann
{"title":"The legal status of nuclear power in Germany","authors":"Thomas Mann","doi":"10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2014-5JRTPST6RKD3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2014-5JRTPST6RKD3","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past 15 years, political attitudes in Germany towards the nuclear industry have been characterised less by consistency than by some major policy shifts, and the same can be said for the legislation born of these attitudes. Although a number of these about-turns were predictable, others were less so because of their dependence on external factors.","PeriodicalId":299751,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Law Bulletin","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125824162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nuclear Law BulletinPub Date : 2015-03-20DOI: 10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2014-5JRTPST1JKLX
Yu. A. Lebedeva
{"title":"Draft Federal Act of the Russian Federation“The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage and its Financial Security”","authors":"Yu. A. Lebedeva","doi":"10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2014-5JRTPST1JKLX","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2014-5JRTPST1JKLX","url":null,"abstract":"The use of nuclear power by states in the modern world requires supplements to international law through the development of national legislation on civil liability for nuclear damage and compensation. The situation in the Russian Federation is no exception. Russian law on civil liability for nuclear damage has not fully evolved, and currently, there is no specific law covering liability for nuclear damage, nor is there a law regarding the financial and insurance mechanisms for compensation. Instead, the current laws establish a state system of benefits and compensation for damage to health and property of citizens.","PeriodicalId":299751,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Law Bulletin","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121262317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nuclear Law BulletinPub Date : 2015-03-20DOI: 10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2014-5JRTPT21G70P
P. Johnson
{"title":"Facilitating the entry into force and implementation of the Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material: Observations, challenges and benefits","authors":"P. Johnson","doi":"10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2014-5JRTPT21G70P","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2014-5JRTPT21G70P","url":null,"abstract":"While the responsibility for nuclear security at the national level rests entirely with each state, international co-operation can be crucial in helping states to fulfil their nuclear security responsibilities and obligations. The central role of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in strengthening the nuclear security framework and leading the co-ordination of international activities in the field of nuclear security is now widely recognised.1 Although much has been done to help states in improving nuclear security, by and under the auspices of the IAEA and other intergovernmental organisations, nuclear terrorism has gained a global recognition as one of the most challenging threats to global security in the 21st century.","PeriodicalId":299751,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Law Bulletin","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116785859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nuclear Law BulletinPub Date : 2014-11-21DOI: 10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2014-5JRTPSJ3TGG3
David B. Davies
{"title":"The Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage andparticipation by developing countries: A South African perspective","authors":"David B. Davies","doi":"10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2014-5JRTPSJ3TGG3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2014-5JRTPSJ3TGG3","url":null,"abstract":"Nuclear energy plays a major role in the provision of baseload1 power in countries throughout the world. It provides a clean, safe, economical and reliable source of power that is essential to the development of any economy, and particularly the economies of developing countries that have traditionally relied on whatever sources of power are at their disposal, irrespective of the disadvantages that some of these sources may carry. Whilst the worldwide debate on climate change continues, it is clear that nuclear energy has a distinct advantage due to its lack of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions that are inherent in fossil-fired power plants.","PeriodicalId":299751,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Law Bulletin","volume":"122 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129785155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nuclear Law BulletinPub Date : 2014-11-21DOI: 10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2014-5JRTPSJ53F7H
William E. Fork, C. H. Peterson
{"title":"Fusion energy and nuclear liability considerations","authors":"William E. Fork, C. H. Peterson","doi":"10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2014-5JRTPSJ53F7H","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2014-5JRTPSJ53F7H","url":null,"abstract":"For over 60 years, fusion energy has been recognised as a promising technology for safe, secure and environmentally-sustainable commercial electrical power generation. Over the past decade, research and development programmes across the globe have shown progress in developing critical underlying technologies. Approaches ranging from high-temperature plasma magnetic confinement fusion to inertial confinement fusion are increasingly better understood.","PeriodicalId":299751,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Law Bulletin","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131225082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nuclear Law BulletinPub Date : 2014-03-17DOI: 10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2013-5JZ742TKM5Q8
E. Ercan, H. Schneider
{"title":"Turkish nuclear legislation: Developments for a nuclear newcomer","authors":"E. Ercan, H. Schneider","doi":"10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2013-5JZ742TKM5Q8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/NUCLEAR_LAW-2013-5JZ742TKM5Q8","url":null,"abstract":"Turkey’s current and future economic growth is estimated by OECD “to rise to above 3% in 2013 and, as the global recovery gathers strength, to pick up to 4.5% in 2014”. The energy situation, particularly, in the electricity sector with supply from different energy sources and a high rate of importation has led to recognition by the Turkish government of a need for nuclear energy.","PeriodicalId":299751,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Law Bulletin","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126814983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}