SEMINAR FOCUSES ON RUSSIA AND NUCLEAR LIABILITY LAW

Europe Energy, May, 1997

Senior representatives from the Russian Ministries of Atomic Energy, Finance and Foreign Affairs, OECD countries, the European Commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency met in Moscow from April 15 to 17 to discuss the benefits Russia would derive from joining the system of international nuclear liability conventions. The resolution of liability and insurance questions is considered essential to the efforts by member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development to provide nuclear safety assistance to Russia.

Organised by the OECD's Nuclear Energy Agency and the Gosatomnadzor (Russian nuclear regulatory agency), the seminar focused on the international principles of nuclear liability law and their incorporation into Russian...

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