The allocation at law of nuclear risks, exposures, costs and expenses of supply

Nuclear incidents involve risks, exposures, costs and expenses which must be borne by people, individually or grouped together in organizations, or the general public represented by government. The function of the law and the purpose of legal considerations is to allocate risks, exposures, costs and expenses among people. Generally the final allocation will be made by people set up as decision-makers applying or otherwise utilizing to some extent predetermined, relatively objective criteria known as laws. The paper presents a few basic guides to nuclear liability which can be applied to the nuclear engineer's work