Legal and environmental responsibility of nuclear power plants

The legal and environmental liability of nuclear power plants explains the importance and meaning of nuclear energy, analyses the risk factors in the use of nuclear energy, the public perception of these risks and the development of nuclear energy law. It also places nuclear energy in the context of sustainable development and demonstrates the vital importance of the role of nuclear energy in combating climate change on the theoretical and practical level. more. The theoretical relationship between international law and environmental law is closely interconnected, and the identification of nuclear energy-related provisions in environmental law instruments and the analysis of the application of environmental law principles in nuclear agreements are important for the liability of nuclear power plants. In this context, many important principles of environmental law applied in the field of nuclear energy are discussed. In this context, it is indispensable to address issues such as nuclear safety and nuclear security and to analyse them with the necessary documents. While international law regulates the legal norms related to nuclear safety by taking into account the high risk factor it carries, taking into account the transboundary nature of nuclear accident events, it has introduced strict legal regulations by ensuring the maximum guarantee of safety and has supported the compensation of these damages with international legal agreements. In this context, the provisions of relevant agreements such as the 1994 Nuclear Safety Convention and IAEA Safety Guidelines were discussed and the adequacy of international texts was determined as a priority target in terms of minimising the risk of accidents. Again, nuclear agreements are very important in terms of determining the liability regimes for third parties. It deals with notification, emergency preparedness and response to a possible or actual nuclear accident. As legal obligations, the agreements regulate the institutional framework for the regulation of nuclear energy at the global and regional level. The role of the IAEA, NEA and ICRP in setting nuclear safety standards, radioactive waste management, technology transfer, technical assistance in the development and formulation of regulatory frameworks and the provision of the necessary infrastructure for the peaceful use of nuclear energy is analysed. The regulatory responses at the global, regional and state levels following different nuclear accidents around the world are evaluated with a general legal overview.