ABU DHABI – More than 60 representatives from over 20 federal and local government entities are discussing how to best implement national and international laws that govern the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
The UAE’s nuclear regulator, the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR), and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have jointly organised the workshop on the ‘Legal infrastructure supporting the development of a Nuclear energy programme’.
The workshop was opened at Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi (PSUAD) by Ambassador Hamad Al Ka’abi, UAE’s Permanent Representative to the IAEA and the Special Representative for International Nuclear Cooperation, on Sunday.
Participants will hear presentations by IAEA experts on the international legal framework and by UAE experts on the national implementation. The event will also enable FANR and other main stakeholders to discuss their particular responsibilities and achievements in the context of the UAE’s nuclear legal framework.
Topics such as safety, security, safeguards and export control etc will be among the issues on the agenda of the three-day event.
Source: Khaleej Times
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Richard Perry
January 16, 2012
I hope they will allow law suits against the nuclear industry when it is proved that radiation from a plant has done damages of any kind to people and industry anywhere on this planet and in space. I am afraid what may happen if the nuclear industry passes laws to protect them from law suits, the people will revolt and smaller countries without nuclear.
Guest
January 16, 2012
It’s kinda amazing how much $$$ is behind the nuclear industry. Fully-funded Agencies have been created to watch over agencies to watch over agencies who are supposed to watch over the safety of power plants…but do they or do they watch out for the “stakeholders”?
They already have international treaties that outline (limit) compensation for nuclear accidents.
“The Convention of Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage, signed by 14 countries and ratified by four, including the U.S., sets a ceiling on compensation at roughly 300 million SDRs, or special drawing rights — a form of international money created by the International Monetary Fund. One SDR is worth about $1.60.”
http://fukushimanewsresearch.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/japan-unsigned-treaties-up-japans-nuke-suit-risk/
Note that the U.S. taxpayer pays over one hundred million dollars and possibily it’s up to two hundred million dollars now to the IAEA.
Guest
January 16, 2012
A year. I forgot to add that the U.S. taxpayers pay that $$ thru their taxes to the IAEA every year!
The IAEA was created in 1957. I wonder what’s the total amount of $$ the U.S. taxpayers have paid to keep this agency afloat all of these years? And for what? For the IAEA to promote the irradiation of food using radiation waste from the nuclear energy process?
Gee, thanks.
Imagine if that money been put into renewable energy research and development!
How many cancers would NOT have occurred…how much land would NOT have been polluted….