[en] The author proposes the creation of a system of distribution for limited indemnification amounts before the occurrence of a nuclear incident. The offered concept contains basic substantive procedural elements: two-thirds of the liability sum or coverage amount should be reserved for compensation of personal injuries. Damage claims of the nuclear economy would only be compensated with lower priority. The procedure for distribution should be concentrated on an official authority, commission or court. This authority should be allowed to issue a provisional prohibition of payment or stay of execution. At the same time, anticipated payments should be possible. (NEA)

[en] This chapter discusses the status of the Price-Anderson Act which provides a means of compensation for members of the public who may be injured as a result of a nuclear incident at a licensed commercial power plant or a facility of the United States Government operated by a contractor. It describes the course of bills to extend the Act in 1987 and analyses some of the major issues of the debate (NEA)

[en] This Memorandum issued by the Swedish Ministry of Justice contains proposed amendments to the 1968 Nuclear Liability Act which can be divided into two categories. Those in the first category are required to enable Sweden to ratify the draft Protocols to amend the Paris Convention and the Brussels Supplementary Convention. The second category of amendments propose that the nuclear operator's liability be raised from the present sum of 50 million Kroner to 500 million Kroner, to be covered by insurance; it is also proposed that a State liability be introduced over and above the compensation available, the aggregate amount being limited to 300 million Kroner. State indemnification would apply to the Nordic countries. The Annexes to the Memorandum contain the English and French texts of the draft Protocols to amend both above-mentioned Conventions (NEA)

[en] To keep in line with the world-wide tendency to strengthen the nuclear third party liability system after the Chernobyl accident, the Protocols to amend the Paris Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy and the Brussels Convention Supplementary to the Paris Convention was adopted on 12 February, 2004. The most important feature of the revised Paris Convention is an increase in the nuclear operator's liability amount from 15 million SDRs to a new minimum of 700 million Euros. For the additional compensation to those provided by the domestic liability regime, the revised Brussels Supplementary Convention will maintain its basic three-tier compensation system but with significantly increased amounts(As a result the total amount to be compensated according to the three tiers will be 15 billions Euros). The protocols to amend the Paris Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy will come into force when ratified by two thirds of the Signatory States, and the protocol to amend the Brussels Convention Supplementary to the Paris Convention will come into force when ratified by all the Brussels Supplementary Convention Signatory States

[en] The purpose of this Order is to raise the maximum liability of the nuclear operator to one milliard Belgium francs per nuclear incident. This measure was taken with a view to keeping the operator's maximum liability at least at a constant value. (NEA)

[en] The Orphan Drug Act includes a request to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) that a table of probabilities of cancer being caused by radiation be constructed. The idea is to develop a method of compensation for damages caused by exposure to radiation. Although the specific source of a cancer cannot be identified, perhaps the share contributed by exposure to a specified source and specified dose can be estimated

[en] This work is devoted to the sanitary consequences of the French nuclear tests on the young soldiers low or not informed on the biological effects of radiations. It is separated in two parts: the first one concern the tests in Algeria ( with the underground explosions at In Eker and the Beryl accident) the second part is relative to the nuclear tests in Polynesia ( the low protected activities and the Meknes accident). (N.C.)

[en] This book was published in the framework of the OECD Environment Committee's activities and contains a series of studies on various modes of compensation for various types of pollution damage, and also includes nuclear damage. It considers the experience of Member countries to date with compensation and examines some of the legal and economic problems associated with the establishment and administration of compensation systems from both a national and an international perspective. (NEA)

[en] In the first stage of the revision process, the only goal was to amend certain provisions of the Vienna Convention. Later, in what might be called the second stage, the question was seriously raised of establishing a new supplementary convention by which additional funds were to be provided by the international community of States. Most experts felt that the nuclear liability regime of the Vienna Convention, as amended, would really serve the interests of potential victims of nuclear incidents only if it were supported by an international supplementary fund providing additional compensation for nuclear damage to that provided by the operator. Thus, the Standing Committee started to consider the establishment, under the Vienna Convention, of a mechanism for mobilizing additional funds for compensation of nuclear damage. During the negotiations it was deemed necessary to establish a separate treaty for such a supplementary fund, and indeed, efforts were undertaken to draw up such an instrument concurrently with the revision of the Vienna Convention. (K.A.)

[en] This Order brings into force on 1 June 1983 the provisions of the Energy Act 1983 relating to electricity generation and supply. The Order also brings into force on 1 September 1983 the provisions of the Act relating to the Electricity Consumers' Council and to nuclear installations. (NEA)