“Nuclear Law in Motion” [update]

Restaurant Em Höttche, Das historische Gasthaus am Rathaus, Markt 4,

53111 Bonn (www.em-hoettche.de/index.htm). Dinner not included in the conference fee.

Walking lunch

• Dr. Christian Raetzke, Chairman of the German Branch of AIDN/INLA

Welcome and introduction

• Jacques Lavoie, President AIDN/INLA

Message to auditorium

First Working Session

Nuclear Waste Management – Responsibility and Liability

Chair: MinR Dr. Hans-Christoph Pape, Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie

Session secretary: Torsten Gierke, GNS

• Prof. Dr. Markus Ludwigs, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg – The Act on the Reorganization of Responsibility in Nuclear Waste Management – core content and open questions.

• Dr. Christian Müller-Dehn, PreussenElektra – Implementation of the Act on transfer of disposal tasks – regulatory issues.

• Dr. Anton Burger, Oxera – Economic analysis and state aid in the nuclear industry – Lessons learned from the ex-ample Hinkley Point for the Reorganization of Responsibility in Nuclear Waste Manage-ment in Germany.

Second Working Session

Nuclear Third Party Liability, with a focus on transport of nuclear material

Chair: Mark Tetley, Price Forbes

Session secretary: Justin Franken, DKVG

• Achim Jansen-Tersteegen, DKVG – Current problems of liability for transport of nuclear substances.

• Khalil Bukhari, INS, UK – Liability for cost of recovery of nuclear material after transport incidents.

• Kaan Kuzeyli, OECD-NEA – Liability under the PC for transport of nuclear material to or from a non-convention state.

• Ximena Vasquez-Maignan, OECD-NEA – Status of the work of the NEA Working Party on Deep Geological Repositories and Nu-clear Liability.

Third Working Session

Legal issues in radiation protection, main-ly regarding EU Basic Safety Standards, dismantling and waste disposal

Chair: Dr. Norbert Peinsipp, MinR a.D.

Session secretary: Sidonie Royer-Maucotel, CEA

• RDir’in Dr. Goli-Schabnam Akbarian, Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, Bau und Re-aktorsicherheit – The new German Act on Radiation Protection

• Brigitte Röller, Sächsisches Staatsministerium für Umwelt und Landwirtschaft – Release of radioactive substances from regulatory control and subsequent disposal.

• Martina Froning, FZ Jülich – Multidisciplinary European Low Dose Initiative (MELODI).
• Mark Callis Sanders, Sanders Engineering, US – Low Dose Radiation Health Effects and the US-NCRP report „Deriving Organ Doses and their Uncertainty for Epidemiological Studies“.

Panel discussion

National developments and challenges in the field of legal requirements for final disposal

• Dr. Sara Maciel Sánchez, Martínez & Maciel Nuclear Law Firm, Mexico,

• Judit Silye, Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority, Hungary,

• Lisa Thiele, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Canada,

• Nuria Prieto Serrano, ENRESA, Spain,

• MinDir a.D. Hubert Steinkemper, Commission Storage Highly Radioactive Waste, Germany,

• Jay Kraemer, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, USA,

• Hanns Näser, Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service mbH, Germany.

Fourth Working Session

Current tendencies in international nuclear law

Chair: Stephen Tromans QC, UK

Session secretary: tba

• Jay Kraemer, FriedFrank, USA – Development of US nuclear law in the Trump Era.
• Ian Salter, Burges Salmon, UK – Legal Implications of Brexatom from a UK perspective.
• Marc Beyens, Engie Electrabel, Belgium – Cross-border Lawsuits filed against continued operation of certain Belgian NPPs.