Research On International Legal System Of Civil Liability For Nuclear Damage

Nuclear accident damage, is refers to the human peaceful use of nuclear energy and nuclear facilities in the operation of the occurrence of a nuclear accident, due to radioactive radiation sources or nuclear materials or radioactive and toxic, explosive or other dangerous of combination, and on the human body, property and the environment caused by the damage. How to ensure that victims receive timely, adequate and reasonable compensation has become an important issue concerned by the public and the international community, and has become an important factor affecting the development of nuclear energy. At the same time, once the accident caused damage, the responsible person to assume liability for compensation may fall into bankruptcy. Under these circumstances, the huge responsibility of nuclear damage and its uncertainty has become the main obstacle to the development of the private sector in the field of nuclear energy. To this end, countries in the development and utilization of nuclear energy to take a variety of technical measures and management measures to improve the safety of atomic energy, but also from a legal perspective to be standardized. In various countries and the international community are in an effort to establish a comprehensive legal system of liability for nuclear damage and to determine the nuclear damage liability, liability and responsibility for the financial guarantees, both to ensure compensation for the victims of the nuclear damage, and the development of nuclear energy for the investors and managers to be compensation liability limitation, encouraging them to enter this field. The author mainly from the International Convention on civil liability for nuclear damage compensation involved the damage compensation principle and the scope of angle to analyze and further discusses how to perfect China's civil liability for nuclear damage compensation system.