Nuclear New Build Renaissance: In Search of New Approaches to Legal Challenges and Regulatory Effectiveness

This volume collects a selection of the papers presented at the Congress, revised and expanded for publication, and organised into six thematic parts that mirror the  principal legal challenges facing the current wave of nuclear new build projects worldwide. [...]
Taken together, these fourteen chapters illustrate both the breadth of the legal community’s engagement with the nuclear new build renaissance and the extent of the work that remains to be done. Contracting models designed for a different era, certification regimes that have yet to be harmonised across borders, liability and waste management frameworks still being tested for the first time in several jurisdictions, and entirely new frontiers such as the use of nuclear technology in space all point to the same underlying conclusion: technology is advancing faster than the legal and regulatory architecture built to support it. It is precisely this gap that the Nuclear Inter Jura Congress—and, we hope, this volume—seeks to help close, by bringing together practitioners, regulators, academics and in-house counsel from across the world to share experience and propose new approaches. [fragment Wstępu]

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction 9

PART I
NUCLEAR NEW BUILD: CONTRACTING, MARKET DESIGN AND BUSINESS MODELS

Chapter 1
Contracting for Nuclear Power Plants – Central Europe Perspective 15
Tomasz Darowski, Kamil Pociecha

Chapter 2
The Role of Nuclear Power in the New EU Electricity Market Design  27
Wojciech Wrochna, Bartosz Brzyski

PART II
SMALL MODULAR REACTORS (SMRs):LEGAL AND REGULATORY CHALLENGES

Chapter 3
Legal Barriers to the Deployment of SMR and ANT Reactors in the European Union: Is the Euratom Treaty Sufficient?  47
Przemysław Gorzkowski

Chapter 4
Planning and Contracting for Small Modular Reactor Deployment 61
Robert Temple

Chapter 5
The Small Modular Reactors: India’s Predicament to Liberalise Nuclear Power 75
Riju Raj Singh Jamwal

PART III
NUCLEAR LIABILITY AND TRANSPORT

Chapter 6
Nuclear Damage Claims Regulation in Poland: Analysis and Diagnosis  113
Patrycja Nowakowska

Chapter 7
Liability for Nuclear Transport: A Pragmatic Case Study Approach, Including SMRs 133
Evelyne M. Ameye

PART IV
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT

Chapter 8
Progress and Emerging Issues in the Geological Disposal of High-Level Nuclear Waste in Japan  159
Fumito Tomooka

Chapter 9
SMR and AMR Radioactive Waste: A Comparative Legal Analysis 171
Nuria Prieto Serrano (coord.), with contributions by: Istiak Ahmed, Jerry Bonanno, Charles Bressant, Katarína Duchoňová, Stephen Tromans KC, Alexandra Van Kalleveen and Federico Winsens

Chapter 10
Achieving Permanent Disposal of Higher Level Radioactive Wastes 219
Stephen Tromans KC

PART V
DECOMMISSIONING AND RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION

Chapter 11
Environmental Impact Assessments for Decommissioning and Dismantling: Analysis of Existing Frameworks and Recommendations for Improving Effectiveness 53
Guan Schaiko, Ellen Vandensande

Chapter 12
Nuclear New Build Renaissance, Decommissioning and Radiological Protection in the United Kingdom: Legal and Regulatory Framework 277
Lorraine Chiwenga

Chapter 13
When Armies March – Radiological Protection During a Time of War  295
Mark Callis Sanders, Charlotta E. Sanders

PART VI
NUCLEAR LAW AND THE NEW SPACE ERA

Chapter 14
Nuclear Law in the New Space Era: Commercial Use of Outer Space and the Future of the Law of Nuclear Energy 323
Jakub Handrlica

References 339