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Title

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

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Caron, David D.
• Scheiber, Harry N.

Description

xx, 573 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"Law of the Sea Institute, University of California, Berkeley".--T.p.

Subject

• 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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Assessing the impact of the nuclear age on the oceans and its legal regime / David D. Caron and Harry N. Scheiber -- Deep sea impacts / Hjalmar Thiel -- 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 -- Legacies and perils from the perspective of the Republic of the Marshall Islands nuclear claims tribunal / Philip A. Okney -- The legacy of French nuclear testing in the Pacific / Laurence Cordonnery -- Hazardous substances and the Baltic Sea / Malgosia Fitzmaurice -- 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 -- Sub-seabed disposal of high level radioactive waste : the policy context then and now / Edward L. Miles --^
• Ocean transport of radioactive fuel and waste / Jon M. Van Dyke -- Transportation of radioactive materials through the Caribbean Sea : the development of a nuclear-free zone / Luis E. Rodríguez-Rivera -- Ocean transport of radioactive fuel and waste : a Japanese perspective / Masahiro Miyoshi -- Navigation of ships with nuclear cargoes : dialogue between flag and coastal states as a method for managing the dispute / Tulio Treves -- Maritime terrorism and the international law of boarding of vessels at sea : assessing the new developments / Ted L. McDorman -- The proliferation security initiative and Asia / Mark J. Valencia -- The proliferation security initiative : amending the Convention on the Law of the Sea by stealth? / Donald R. Rothwell -- Cargos of doom : national strategies of the U.S. to combat the illicit transport of weapons of mass destruction by sea / Craig H. Allen -- Nuclear-weapon-free zones and maritime transit of nuclear weapons / Scott Parrish --^
• Oceans in a nuclear age : security concerns of the United States / Michael J. Matheson -- Canada, the United States and the northwest passage / Elizabeth B. Elliot-Meisel -- The Russian approach to the protection of the Arctic seas from radioactive wastes / Alexander S. Skaridov -- Arctic nuclear pollution / Lakshman D. Guruswamy -- Nuclear transport along the northern route and nuclear waste dumping in the Barents and Kara Seas / R. Douglas Brubaker -- Reflections on the theme of the oceans in the nuclear age / Bernard H. Oxman -- The oceans in the nuclear age : challenges, questions and possibilities / David D. Caron.

ISBN

• 9789004156753 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004156755 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009029368

OCLC

426391050

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library