The oceans in the nuclear age : legacies and risks / edited by David D. Caron and Harry N. Scheiber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scheiber, Harry N., editor.

Caron, David D., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radioactive waste disposal in the ocean (International law).

Hazardous substances--Law and legislation.

Hazardous substances.

Radioactive substances--Transportation (International law).

Radioactive substances.

Marine pollution--Law and legislation.

Marine pollution.

Nuclear fuels--Law and legislation.

Nuclear fuels.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (636 p.)

Edition:

Expanded edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill Nijhoff, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The advent of the nuclear age in 1945 fundamentally altered the course of human events. The oceans are not the focus of the nuclear age, but the affairs of the oceans are deeply woven into the history of that age. Knowledge of what the nuclear age has meant for the oceans, however, is highly fragmented and there exists a surprising gap in research on the impact of the nuclear age on the oceans and on ocean law and policy. Ranging from dumped wastes to transportation to security, this study frames the complex multidimensional set of relationships between the oceans and the nuclear age and illuminates patterns of impact and response in ocean law. This timely expanded edition includes a new chapter by Lt. Todd Hutchins, USN, on “Nuclear Risks in Coastal Areas: Legal and Regulatory Responses.” It provides a full discussion of the 2011 coastal Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant disaster, together with analysis more generally of the challenges to the environment and to the legal order globally that are posed by coastal siting of nuclear power plants.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Chapter One Assessing the Impact of the Nuclear Age on the Oceans and Its Legal Regime / David D. Caron and Harry N. Scheiber

Chapter Two Deep Sea Impacts / Hjalmar Thiel

Chapter Three Risk and Vulnerability at Contaminated Sites in the Pacific and Australian Proving Grounds from a ‘Long-Term Stewardship’ Perspective: What Have We Learned? / Thomas M. Leschine

Chapter Four Legacies and Perils from the Perspective of the Republic of the Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal / Philip A. Okney

Chapter Five The Legacy of French Nuclear Testing in the Pacific / Laurence Cordonnery

Chapter Six Hazardous Substances and the Baltic Sea / Malgosia Fitzmaurice

Chapter Seven New Opportunities and Deep Ocean Technologies for Assessing the Feasibility of Sub-Seabed High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal: The Application of 21st Century Oceanography to Solving Outstanding Problems / Daniel J. Fornari

Chapter Eight Sub-Seabed Disposal of High Level Radioactive Waste: The Policy Context Then and Now / Edward L. Miles

Chapter Nine Ocean Transport of Radioactive Fuel and Waste / Jon M. Van Dyke†

Chapter Ten Transportation of Radioactive Materials through the Caribbean Sea: The Development of a Nuclear-Free Zone / Luis E. Rodríguez-Rivera

Chapter Eleven Ocean Transport of Radioactive Fuel and Waste: A Japanese Perspective / Masahiro Miyoshi

Chapter Twelve Navigation of Ships with Nuclear Cargoes: Dialogue between Flag and Coastal States as a Method for Managing the Dispute / Tullio Treves

Chapter Thirteen Maritime Terrorism and the International Law of Boarding of Vessels at Sea: Assessing the New Developments / Ted L. McDorman

Chapter Fourteen The Proliferation Security Initiative and Asia / Mark J. Valencia

Chapter Fifteen The Proliferation Security Initiative: Amending the Convention on the Law of the Sea by Stealth? / Donald R. Rothwell

Chapter Sixteen Cargos of Doom: National Strategies of the U.S. to Combat the Illicit Transport of Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sea / Craig H. Allen

Chapter Seventeen Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones and Maritime Transit of Nuclear Weapons / Scott Parrish

Chapter Eighteen Oceans in a Nuclear Age: Security Concerns of the United States / Michael J. Matheson

Chapter Nineteen Canada, The United States and the Northwest Passage / Elizabeth B. Elliot-Meisel

Chapter Twenty The Russian Approach to the Protection of the Arctic Seas from Radioactive Wastes / Alexander S. Skaridov

Chapter Twenty-One Arctic Nuclear Pollution / Lakshman D. Guruswamy

Chapter Twenty-Two Nuclear Transport along the Northern Route and Nuclear Waste Dumping in the Barents and Kara Seas / R. Douglas Brubaker

Chapter Twenty-Three Reflections on the Theme of the Oceans in the Nuclear Age / Bernard H. Oxman

Chapter Twenty-Four The Oceans in the Nuclear Age: Challenges, Questions and Possibilities / David D. Caron

Chapter Twenty-Five Nuclear Risks in Coastal Areas: Legal and Regulatory Responses / Todd Emerson Hutchins

Abbreviations

Selected Bibliography

A Note on Radioactive Materials and their Measurements

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

"A law of the sea institute publication."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 15, 2015).

ISBN:

90-04-27998-9

OCLC:

898769108

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004279988 DOI