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Nuclear Industry: Face your demons. Towards full liability for npp operators
Auteur | FOE Europe |
6-01-0-30-33.pdf | |
Datum | oktober 2007 |
Classificatie | 6.01.0.30/33 (AANSPRAKELIJKHEID/VERZEKERINGEN/WETGEVING) |
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Nuclear industry: Face your demons towards full liability for nuclear power plant operators Introduction The nuclear power debate can get emotional, but it is both in the interest of the nuclear power industry and in the interest of environmental NGO's like Friends of the Earth Europe to address factual concerns. It is a fact that nuclear power plants are heavily underinsured considering the risks which nuclear power plant operators impose upon society. In this background position paper Friends of the Earth Europe describes the current regime of liability for nuclear power plants, before going on to introduce an alternative. Since 2004 European countries have been updating regulation to increase nuclear power plant- operators liability1 insurance to € 700 million per incident. Given the human tragedy of a severe accident, Friends of the Earth Europe believes € 700 million would be far from adequate to financially compensate victims and suggests an alternative model which could provide a liability coverage more then a hundred times greater than currently, and eventually unlimited. Current status In the early sixties, recognising the cross border effect of nuclear incidents, two groups of countries agreed amongst each other how to arrange the liability of nuclear power plants. This resulted in the Vienna (IAEA) and the Paris (OECD) conventions. Both included different, but limited, third party liability. These conventions are linked by a Joint Protocol, adopted in 1988. The main purpose of the conventions is to: ● Limit liability to a certain amount and limit the period for making claims; ● Require insurance or other surety by operators; ● Channel liability exclusively to the operator of the nuclear installation; Operator liability