Nuclear law in progress – Buenos Aires proceedings

December 29, 2014

We are pleased to announce that the proceedings and all other papers from the XXI AIDN / INLA Congress “Nuclear law in progress” – held in Buenos Aires from 20 to 23 October 2014 are now available online!

10-sc “Nuclear law in progress” (Derecho nuclear en evolución) has been published by “Legis Argentina” and edited by Prof. Dr. Rafael Mariano Manóvil – the President of AIDN/INLA.

To download full publication click here

To order the publication, please contact: info@aidn-inla.be

Other papers presented during the Congress are available below:

Cristina Dominguez, The Code of Conduct on the safety and security of radioactive sources and the Abbu Dhabi conference
Mark C. Sanders & Charlotta Sanders, United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Modernization of Nixon Era Radiation Standards – An Exercise of Legal Responsibility to Protect the Public with sound Theoretical and Technical Foundation or Politics at Play?
Ahab Abdel Aziz, Obstacles to nuclear power development in emerging / smaller economies
Christoph Moench & Marc Rutloff, The all-purpose port of the Free and Hanseatic City of Bremen and the prohibition of shipment of nuclear materials
Maxine Symington, The regulation of international trade in enriched uranium in the new build era
Aashrika Ahuja, Peaceful destruction in Fukushima: Oxymoron Reidentified
Sylvain Fanielle & Piotr Andrzejewski, Securing Radioactive Sources and Materials: Time to have an International Convention?

See also:

Alexandra Van Kalleveen, Discussion report – Session on Radiation Protection.

Presentations from the Congress are available on the website of Asociación Argentina de Derecho Nuclear.

Table of contents – “Nuclear law in progress”

General Session:

Abel Gonzalez, Imputability of Health Effects to Low-dose Radiation Exposure Situations
Peri L. Johnson, Opening Address: Developments in Nuclear Law
Diva E. Puig, Seguridad nuclear en Latinoamérica. El rol del derecho nuclear. Uno propuesta
Guilhermina Lavos Coimbra, El potencial nuclear para usos pacíficos de Brasil. La defensa de la política de participación
Chun-Sheng Chen, Establishment of an east asian nuclear safety and liability regime
Kyoji Kawasaki, Challenges and Prospects for the Nuclear Safety and Liability Regimes in Japan after Fukushima

Radioactive Sources:

Sara Maciel Sánchez, The mexican case of a stolen radioactive sources during December 2013. The actions to be taken in and beyond national borders and the demand of the situation
Ivonne María Alonso González & Alma Arnau Fernández, Authorization of practices and activities involved with the use of radioactive sources, cuban regulatory body experience

Safety and Licensing

Tobias Heldt, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and its relevance for the nuclear sector
Anoeska Buijze, Tijn Kortmann & Caroline Verwijs, Transparency and Nuclear Law: An Instrumental Perspective
Rasa Ptasekaite, Continous improvement of nuclear safety and nuclear safety culture: concepts and interaction
L. Kueny & E. Durand-Poudret, La gouvernance internationale de la surete nucleaire: quelle remise en cause apres Fukushima?
Jacques Lavoie, The constitutional duty to consult aboriginal peoples in Canada
Daniela Stölzgen, Nuclear Phase Out and Operator’s Rights. The German Example
Judit Silye, EU initiatives following Fukushima nuclear accident: amending the nuclear safety directive and establishing the “EU Liability Regime”
Fotuné Ahoulouma & Laure Chapotet, La convention sur la surete nucleaire: une convention cadre? The convention on nuclear safety: a framework convention?

Radioactive Waste Management

Laurence Chabanne-Pouzynin, Les déchets radioactifs: Enjeux et débats
Nuria Prieto Serrano, The nuclear waste directive: contents and some reflections on its peer-review mechanism
Stanley David Berger, Lessons learned from 2013-2014 Deep Geologic Repository (DGR) Proceedings in Kincardine, Canada
Gunther Kühne, The german paths towards a final nuclear waste repository
Tomas Löfgren, Legal and procedural challenges in reviewing the application for a final repository for spent fuel in Sweden
Marc Beyens & Godelieve Vandeputte, Providing for decommissioning funds: minimum conditions for adequate funding and comparative analysis
Sergey Savin, Leonid Sukhanov & Andrey Kuznetsov, Regulatory framework and licensing of nuclear site decommission and waste management in Russia

Radiation Protection

Abel J. González, Towards a Convention on Radiation Safety and Security
Gustavo Massera, On the use of International Standards Guidelines Values for radionuclide concentrations in food and drinking water contaminated as result of a nuclear or radiological accident
Ricardo S. Osores Balettute, New law on Radiation Protection and Radiation Safety, of People, Properties and Environment. Uruguay 2014
Anne-Lise Teani, The revision of the Euratom basic safety standards directive

Global New Build Mission in Progress

Graham Alty, Effective Contracting Mechanisms for Nuclear New Build
Aihong Wu & Wei Liu, A study of legal issues relating to public acceptance of nuclear power

Nuclear Transport

Odette Jankowitsch, Law and practice of international nuclear transport

Security & Non-Proliferation

Carlton Stoiber, Recent developments in nuclear security law
Peri Lynne Johnson, Facilitating the entry into force and implementation of the Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material: observations, challenges and benefits
Sonia Drobysz, A new legal tool for States: the National Legislation Implementation Kit on Nuclear Security
Vanda Lamm, New nuclear cases at the Hague Court
Luc Sintat Mpouma, Les fondements juridiques de la non proliferation des armes nucleaires et son influence sur la gouvernance mondiale

Nuclear Liability & Insurance

Stephen G. Burns & Ximena Vásquez-Maignan, Progress towards a Global Nuclear Liability Regime
Pierre Charreton, Towards a necessary optimization of the nuclear liability regimes
Marc Beyens, The EU tentative to harmonise nuclear liability among the EU member states
Jakub Handrlica, The Protocol of 1997 to Amend the Vienna Convention on civil liability for nuclear damage: a chance for strengthening the libaility framework in Europe
Vaibhav Saxena, Nuclear liability. New dimensions and emerging trends
Dave McCauley & Jacques Hénault, Strengthening Canada’s nuclear liability regime
Mark Tetley, Nuclear insurance: yesterday, today, tomorrow
Mikhail N. Lysenko & Andrey A. Shkarbanov, Problems and Prospects for a Global Nuclear Liability Regime
Sang Won Kim, Recent Development in Nuclear Liability Schemes in Korea
Andrey Shlyakhtov, Allocation of Nuclear Civil Liability During Transportation of Nuclear Materials under Different Legal Regimes
Evelyne M. Ameye, US and India – two Nuclear States with Legislation that truly holds Responsible Parties Liable of a Nuclear Accident – should have no reason to disagree
Herkus Gabartas, The challenges for co-existence and harmonization of different nuclear liability regimes in the European Union
Aishwarya Saxena, The challenges for co-existence and harmonization of different nuclear liability regimes in the European Union