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[en] Insurance for large nuclear installations covers mainly four types of risk: third party liability which in accordance with the nuclear conventions, is borne by a nuclear operator following an incident occurring in his installation or during transport of nuclear substances; material damage to the installation itself, which precisely is not covered by third party liability insurance; machinery breakdown, i.e. accidental damage or interruption of operation. Only the first category must be insured. In view of the magnitude of the risk, nuclear insurance resorts to co-insurance and reinsurance techniques which results in a special organisation of the nuclear insurance market, based on national nuclear insurance pools and on the Standing Committee on Atomic Risk of the European Insurance Committee. Conferences of the chairmen of nuclear insurance pools are convened regularly at a worldwide level. (NEA)
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L'assurance des grandes installations nucleaires couvre essentiellement quatre sortes de risques: la responsabilite civile qui est a la charge, conformement aux conventions nucleaires, d'un exploitant d'installation nucleaire a la suite d'un accident survenu dans son installation ou au cours d'un transport de substances nucleaires; les dommages materiels causes a l'installation elle-meme et qui, precisement, ne sont pas couverts par l'assurance responsabilite civile; le bris de machine, c'est-a-dire les degats accidentels d'origine mecanique ou electrique; les pertes indirectes ou pertes d'exploitation. Seule la premiere de ces categories doit obligatoirement etre assuree. L'assurance nucleaire a recours, compte tenu de l'importance du risque, aux techniques de la co-assurance et de re-assurance. Il en resulte une organisation particuliere du marche de l'assurance nucleaire qui repose sur les pools nationaux d'assurances des risques nucleaires et sur la commission permanente du risque atomique du Comite Europeen des Assurances. Sur le plan mondial, des conferences des presidents des pools d'assurances nucleaires sont convoquees regulierementOriginal Title
Assurance des risques nucleaires
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1976; 12 p; Inter-regional training course on nuclear power project planning and implementation; Saclay, France; 20 Mar - 7 Jul 1976
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