The Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage and Radioactive Waste Management: Problems Revisited
Abstrakt
The Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage of 1963 did not specifically addressed the issue of radioactive waste management in its provisions. The lack of explicit provisions concerning these activities in the Convention is due to the fact, that when the Convention was drafted, the development of nuclear energy was in its infancy, and there was little concern about activities at the back end of the fuel cycle.
However, most recently, problems are arising from final disposal of radioactive waste raised again the questions concerning applicability of the liability regime of this Convention on various types of technologies used during radioactive waste management (storage, reprocessing, disposal). This contribution intendts to deal with these issues in the light of existing scientific literature and in the light of the developments in other liability frameworks