REGULATION OF NUCLEAR WASTE AND REACTOR SAFETY WITHIN THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES: TOWARD A WORKABLE MODEL
In: Chicago-Kent Law Review, Jg. 69 (1994), S. 1071
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8131*1071 Introduction The break up of the former Soviet Union has allowed public light to be shed on an international disaster: indiscriminate nuclear waste disposal. According to Russia's environmental minister Viktor Danilov-Daniliyan, nuclear waste and accidents have caused large parts of Russia to be "uninhabitable." 1 Russian scientists have classified fifteen percent of Russia as "ecologically unsafe" for humans. 2 The waste is the legacy of an era when the interests of the state were not restrained by environmental regulation, and is now the problem of fledgling republics which lack the economic resources or technology to contain it. 3 Does an environmental cleanup problem mean curtailment of nuclear reactor operations in the former Soviet states? Presently, there are forty-four operating commercial power nuclear reactors in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, with a total of sixty-eight reactors slated for operation. 4 While there has been public pressure to increase the safety of, or shut down the Chernobyl-style reactors, the Common- 8131*1072 wealth of Independent States ("CIS") has a nuclear program that will continue well into the future. 5 Kazakhstan's Ministry of Science announced their intention to build six nuclear power units, beginning in 1993, to meet the electrical energy needs of that republic. 6 The significant nuclear waste problem in the former Soviet states, along with an active, on-going nuclear power program in what are now struggling independent republics prompts several questions, but the one of concern here is: what is the state of the law to safely and effectively ...
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REGULATION OF NUCLEAR WASTE AND REACTOR SAFETY WITHIN THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES: TOWARD A WORKABLE MODEL
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Temple, Robert K. |
Zeitschrift: | Chicago-Kent Law Review, Jg. 69 (1994), S. 1071 |
Veröffentlichung: | 1994 |
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