Can the existing international nuclear liability regime prevent the re-occurrence of the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters?

Essai , 2013 , 32 Pages , Note: merit

Droit - Droit communautaire/européen, Droit international, Droit privé international

In this essay I would like to argue that the existing international nuclear liability framework cannot prevent great nuclear disasters. I will start with some considerations about Chernobyl and Fukushima, and then my discussion will continue with a framework of the international legal provisions that address related clauses of liability. I attempted to furnish plausible interpretation of the existing international legal framework before arriving at conclusion about the efficiency of this framework.

The nuclear accidents of Chernobyl, USSR in 1986 and Fukushima, Japan in 2011 rekindled serious and thought provoking discussions among the scientific communities, policy planners and beneficiaries of the world to understand whether the existing legal liability ensures the nuclear safeguards to the world for continued use of the nuclear technology at the cost of human and environmental tragedies. A thorough review of these two nuclear tragedies in light of legal provisions is made in the subsequent sections to understand [...]

TABLE OF CONTENT

I. Some considerations about the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents
I.1 Some considerations regarding the Chernobyl accident
I.2 Some considerations regarding the Fukushima accident

II. Legal framework regarding liability in case of nuclear damage
II.1 Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy (the Paris Convention)
II.2 The 1963 Brussels Convention Supplementary to the Paris Convention (Brussels Supplementary Convention)
II.3 Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage
II.4 The 1988 Joint Protocol Relating to the Application of the Vienna Convention and the Paris Convention
II.5 The 1997 Protocol to Amend the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage (VC Protocol)
II.6 The 1997 Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC Supplementary Compensation Convention)
II.7 The 2004 Protocols to Amend the Paris Convention and the Brussels Supplementary Convention (PC Protocol and BSC Protocol)
II.7.1 The 2004 Protocol to Amend the Paris Convention (PC Protocol)
II.7.2 The 2004 Brussels Supplementary Convention (BSC Protocol)

III. Conclusions

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• Université: Queen Mary University of London (Department of Law)
• Cours: LLM
• Note: merit
• Auteur: Alina Alexe (Auteur)
• Année de publication: 2013
• Pages: 32
• N° de catalogue: V356134
• ISBN (ebook): 9783668419599
• ISBN (Livre): 9783668419605
• Langue: anglais
• mots-clé: chernobyl, fukushima