The arrival of nuclear energy gave rise to the need, almost half a century ago, to devise a regime of liability in keeping with the new risks associated with this technology: risks that were not only catastrophic, but also insidious, because they ...

23 September 2003: President Bush, turning the protester into a partner during his annual speech in front of the United Nations (UN), asks “the UN Security Council to adopt a new anti-proliferation resolution” compelling Member States “to ...

One of the most serious challenges facing any international legal institution in the present era of globalisation is the adoption of adequate written laws that address the issues faced by the international community. The International Atomic Energy ...

This article describes developments in nuclear case law in France, the US and the European Union om 2004 and 2005 and in administrative decisions in Sweden in 2005.

The Swedish government decided on 16 December 2004 to shut down the second nuclear power plant at Barsebäck on 31 May 2005. The decision was made pursuant to the 1997 Act on the Phasing-out of Nuclear Power (see Nuclear Law Bulletin No. 61).

This article describes the national nuclear regualtory and legislative activities of various countries in 2004 and 2005.

This article describes the international nuclear regulatory activities of the IAEA and EU in 2005 and 2005.

On 4 April 2005, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism. This instrument results from the work accomplished by the Ad Hoc Committee established by General ...

This article presents the texts of Morocco's Act No. 12-02 on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage (2005), of the IAEA's Code of Conduct on the Safety of Research Reactors promulgated on 7 January 2005, and of the UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004).