Topical Booklets & Overviews
International Nuclear Law in the Post-Chernobyl Period
Jointly produced with the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the OECD (2006)
A publication has been prepared jointly with the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the OECD, which demonstrates how the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on 26 April 1986, heightened awareness of the need to improve the international legal regime governing the safe and peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Within six months of the accident, a Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident and a Convention on Assistance in the Event of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency were negotiated and adopted under the auspices of the IAEA. In 1994, a Convention designed to achieve and maintain a high-level of nuclear safety worldwide was also adopted, as was a Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste Management, in 1997. In addition, the existing international regimes governing the liability and compensation for nuclear damage were significantly reinforced and a new global regime was created.
Articles:
- Overview of the International Legal Framework Governing the Safe and Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy – Some Practical Steps
-- J. Rautenbach, W. Tonhauser and A. Wetherall - International Nuclear Third Party Liability Law: The Response to Chernobyl
-- J. Schwartz - Learning the Hard Way: Did the Lessons Taught by the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident Contribute to Improving Nuclear Law?
-- N. Pelzer - The IAEA Conventions on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident and on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency
-- B. Moser - A Bridge Between Two Conventions on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage: the Joint Protocol Relating to the Application of the Vienna Convention and the Paris Convention
-- O. von Busekist - The Convention on Nuclear Safety
-- O. Jankowitsch-Prevor - The Protocol amending the 1963 Vienna Convention
-- V. Lamm - The Compensation Convention: Path to a Global Regime for Dealing with Legal Liability and Compensation for Nuclear Damage
-- B. McRae - The Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management
-- W. Tonhauser and O. Jankowitsch-Prevor - The reform of the Paris Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy and of the Brussels Supplementary Convention – An Overview of the Main Features of the Modernisation of the two Conventions
-- R. Dussart Desart
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