A Study On The International Legal Regime Of The Nuclear Emergency

With the rapid development of the economical globalization, the internationalsociety is increasingly depending on energy. However, the serious environmentaldamage is the other dimension of economical development. Due to the nonrenewablecharacteristics of the traditional energy, oil, coal and natural gas for instance, they areconfronting with the risk of the exhausted condition currently. By the contrast, nuclearenergy is accepted as one of the most popular energy, which is famous for its clean,efficiency and low cost, by the present international society. The future of nuclearenergy is promising, as it is replacing the traditional energy.Nevertheless, the nuclear accidents happened in mankind history caused enormouslosses to both healthy and property. Especially, the Japan’s Fukushima nuclear accidentin2011attracted great attention to the international community. Accordingly, the entireworld is immersed in the atmosphere of tremendous fear towards the nuclear energy.Thus, the peaceful use of the nuclear energy is the significance as well as the difficultyfor its further development. Thereinto, it demonstrates that the nuclear emergency isvery important for the nuclear safety.In the context of the international nuclear emergency, this thesis examines theinternational legal regime of the nuclear emergency with the aim of disclosing itsinsufficient, especially after the Fukushima nuclear accident. This thesis contains sevensections, after the introduction, there is a general analysis on the international legalregime of the nuclear emergency. This section starts with the definition of the nuclearemergency, and then analyzes the feature of the nuclear accident and the necessity ofnuclear emergency. Finally, it concludes the international legal basis of the internationallegal regime of nuclear emergency. Section two analyzes the main content of theinternational legal regime of nuclear emergency. It includes the Convention on EarlyNotification of a Nuclear Accident and the Convention on Assistance in Case of aNuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency. Section three is the empirical analysis ofinternational legal regime of nuclear emergency.1986Chernobyl nuclear accident and2011Fukushima nuclear accident is the main content. It concludes the defect exposed inthe international legal regime of nuclear emergency. Section four investigates the development tendency of the international legal regime of nuclear emergency. Sectionfive suggests the strategic choice of China’s legal regime of nuclear emergency.