The oceans in the nuclear age
Subtitle: legacies and risks
By: edited by David D. Caron and Harry N. Scheiber.
Contributors: Caron, David D.; Scheiber, Harry N.
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004156753
Subjects: Radioactive waste disposal in the ocean (International law); Radioactive substances -- Transportation (International law); Nuclear fuels -- Law and legislation; Marine pollution -- Law and legislation; Hazardous substances -- Law and legislation; Law of the sea; Spent reactor fuels; Security, International
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Assessing the impact of the nuclear age on the oceans and its legal regime /  David D. Caron and Harry N. Scheiber; title: Two deep sea impacts / Hjalmar Thiel; title: 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; title: Legacies and perils from the perspective of the Republic of the Marshall Islands nuclear claims tribunal / Philip A. Okney; title: The legacy of French nuclear testing in the Pacific / Laurence Cordonnery; title: Hazardous substances and the Baltic Sea / Malgosia Fitzmaurice; title: 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; title: Sub-seabed disposal of high level radioactive waste : the policy context then and now /  Edward L. Miles; title: Ocean transport of radioactive fuel and waste / Jon M. Van Dyke; title: Ten transportation of radioactive materials through the Caribbean Sea : the development of a nuclear-free zone / Luis E. Rodriguez-Rivera; title: Ocean transport of radioactive fuel and waste : a Japanese perspective / Masahiro Miyoshi; title: Navigation of ships with nuclear cargoes :   dialogue between flag and coastal states as a method for managing the dispute / Tulio Treves; title: Maritime terrorism and the international law of boarding of vessels at sea : assessing the new developments / Ted L. McDorman; title: Th e proliferation security initiative and  Asia / Mark J. Valencia; title: The proliferation security initiative : amending the Convention on the Law of the Sea by   stealth? / Donald R. Rothwell; title: Cargos of doom : national strategies of the U.S. to combat the illicit transport of weapons of mass   destruction by sea / Craig H. Allen; title: Nuclear-weapon-free zones and maritime transit of nuclear weapons / Scott Parrish; title: Oceans in a nuclear age : security concerns of the United States / Michael J. Matheson; title: Canada, the United States and the northwest passage / Elizabeth B. Elliot-Meisel; title: The Russian approach to the protection of the arctic seas from radioactive wastes / Alexander S. Skaridov; title: Arctic nuclear pollution / Lakshman D. Guruswamy; title: Nuclear transport along the northern route and nuclear waste dumping in the Barents and Kara Seas / R. Douglas Brubaker.