scholarly journals A FUEL REPROCESSING PLANT FOR FAST CERAMIC REACTORS

1962 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Alter
Keyword(s):  
Reprocessing Plant ◽  
Fuel Reprocessing ◽  
Ceramic Reactors

Scientific Uncertainty: An Insuperable Obstacle to Compensation for Environmental Causes of Ill Health?

2000 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-205
Author(s):  
Chris Miller
Keyword(s):  
Energy Production ◽  
The Other ◽  
Scientific Uncertainty ◽  
Electricity Distribution ◽  
Power Cables ◽  
Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing ◽  
Environmental Causes ◽  
Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plant ◽  
Reprocessing Plant ◽  
Fuel Reprocessing

In this paper, I review the conceptual and legal obstacles faced by those who seek redress for health detriment which is though to be environmental in origin. I use two case studies concerned with radiation: one is related to energy production (paternal pre-conceptional irradiation of workers at a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant), the other involves electricity distribution (the alleged link between leukaemia and power cables). Judicial approaches to scientific uncertainty inherent in these two cases are examined. The more science points to a hitherto unimagined range of threats to human health, the fewer grounds remain for confidence in the capacity of tort to secure appropriate compensation for the putative victims.

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