By accident or by design? Pushing global governance of nuclear safety

Multinational Energy Justice for Managing Multinational Risks: A Case Study of Nuclear Waste Repositories

“…As a pre‐existing example, the Sellafield nuclear complex in the UK reprocessed waste for Japan, Germany, and Switzerland—extracting uranium and plutonium‐before all was shipped back (Blowers, ); the development of multinational repositories would increase this flow markedly, with risk implications. Reported risks include the danger of accidents with human and environmental health implications and proliferation, mandating a need for multi‐lateral and global governance for nuclear safety (Taebi & Mayer, ).…”

“…Of course, multinational energy negotiations with inter and intra‐generational elements already occur for a range of reasons, be it security and proliferation, resource trading or skill share (see Findlay, ; Fischhendler, Herman, & Anderman, ; Herron & Jenkins‐Smith, ; Kyne, ; Liping, ; Taebi & Mayer, ; Wieczorek, Raven, & Berkhout, ). Kuipers et al () highlight plentiful scholarship in the crisis and disaster literatures that engage with nuclear risk (and more specifically with citizen engagement, communication, and regulation) (see also Chien, ; Kuipers & Welsh, ), but this scholarship does not explicitly address the multinational aspects of nuclear risks and, thereby, also does not engage with the questions of multinational justice (Goldthau & Sovacool, )…”

“…In the history of nuclear energy, there have been many examples of multinational collaborations in nuclear safety, security and safeguards, either between geographically proximate countries—for example, regional approaches in the EU—or between geographically distant countries, such as the Franco–Indian collaborations (Sarkar, ; Taebi & Mayer, ). Ylönen and Litmanen () provide a comprehensive overview of international nuclear safety collaborations, for example, including post‐Fukushima crisis revisions of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Safety Standards and the Western European Nuclear Regulators’ Associations’ (WENRA) Reference Levels for nuclear reactors.…”

New Globalization and Multipolarity: A Critical Review and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Case

“…Specifically, there is no doubt that Asian economies continue to have the will to enter a growing number of trade agreements over the twenty-first century (from the ASEAN to the RCEP). They must, however, consider the increasing burden that FTAs impose on their prospects for more open, integrated, and secure global governance (Taebi and Mayer, 2017). These findings reaffirm that we must all coexist in today's complex and co-opetitive world, effectively promoting patterns of concurrent cooperation and competition (Brandenburger and Nalebuff, 1996;Mongkhonvanit, 2014).…”

Multilateral governance of technological risks; editors’ overview1

“…This is why there is an elaborate set of international institutions, regulations, guidelines and conventions in place to ensure the safety and security of millions of tons of radioactive material (both fuel and waste) and a vast number of nuclear facilities and to minimize the hazards in case of incidents. Much of what is currently in place in the global nuclear safety regime is an acknowledgement of the transboundary character of nuclear risks and they were a response to major nuclear accidents, particularly Chernobyl accident (Taebi and Mayer 2017).…”