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Some legal implications of some nuclear accidents
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| Classification | 6.01.3.10/01 (NUCLEAR SAFETY - REACTORS - GENERAL) |
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Some LEGAL IMPLICATIONS of some NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS 1, Generally In order to assess the law's ability or otherwise to provide remedies for the consequences of accident-induced or sabotage-induced releases of radioactivity from nuclear installations, the lawyer needs first to consider the nature, scale & extend of the liabilities which could arise. The nature of those consequences depends on the type of nuclear installation involved Different types of installation contain different mixes of radioactive isotopes, with very different half-lives & effects. (Example: scientific controversy over the cause of the 1957-58 releases of radioactivity stated in Medvedev's "Nuclear Disaster in Urals" arises partly because USSR's biological articles mention only strontium-90 & caesium-137; the apparent absence of short-lived isotopes may imply that the 100s 1000s of casualties arose from a rupture of the nuclear waste storage tanks).
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