[en] There has recently been a surge of court decisions and juridical treatises on questions of mining law, especially concerning the licensing of mining projects by way of the operating plan authorisation procedure. A central issue here is the relationship between licensing procedures under mining law and the general development of law concerning the licensing of industrial plants and projects. Further impulses have been the introduction of the environmental impact assessment and plan approval procedure to mining law in 1990. The present work exemplifies this complex of problems for the authorisation of the framework operating plan for the exploration mine of Gorleben. It was prepared in the context of the legal debate about the renewal of the authorisation of the framework operating plan which had been limited to 31.12.1992 in 1983. (orig.)

[en] After the nuclear accident in the Soviet nuclear power station of Chernobyl third party liability in cases of transfrontier damage after reactor accidents became a matter of urgent interest. The article deals with questions of the conflict of laws, of civil and of international law. Besides, the legal basis of atomic energy law for compensatory payments, payable by the Federal Government, is examined. The principle of reciprocity, the compensation by the 'Bund' according to sec. 38 of the Atomic Energy Act and the problem of compensation for damage to property find special mentioning. (orig.)

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[en] The contribution discusses the scope of the regulations laid down by the Mining Laws, the plan-of-working procedures stipulated by these laws, the significance of the clause which watches over the conservation of resources ('Rohstoffsicherungsklausel', Paragraph 48/I/p, 2 BBergG) as a clause watching over the availability of repositories, and the responsibilities of the Government and the Lands for administrative procedures within the Mining Laws. The deficiencies of the system with regard to the administrative synchronization of the Atomic Energy Laws and the Mining Laws suggest a reform of the Atomic Energy Law. Although the elimination of such deficiencies has never been the subject of the respective preparatory discussions the reform intends to relieve the Government of any obligation laid down by Paragraph 9a, section 3 of the Atomic Energy Law by putting repository installation and operation into private hands. In view of this target one must be aware of the fact that the Federal Government may have to succumb to the Lands when it comes to executing the regulations of the Mining Laws. A solution of that kind cannot be recommended in view of the fact that one plans to treat every case by applying one kind of licensing procedure in accordance with paragraph 7 of the Atomic Energy Laws and to extend the Government's authority to issue directives (section 85, 3 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany) to legal matters which are wound up by the very Lands. (orig./HSCH)

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[en] The resistance of ion exchangers against radioactive radiation and the fission products developing are discussed. The tests were carried out using cobalt sources with a dose rate of 2 - 7 x 10⁵ rad/h up to a dose of 4.5 x 10⁹ rad. Irradiation of dry or moist resins in an inert gas atmosphere develops only few decomposition products. In air, the decomposition is accelerated, thus developing besides CO₂, CO and H₂ the typical compounds of the functional groups: SO₂ from cation exchangers and trymethylamine from anion exchangers. Under water, different quantities of fission products are formed (H₂O₂, H₂, O₂ etc.) because of the dialysis of water. For fission the form of load is an important factor. Finally consequences of the mechanical stability and of the behaviour of the functional groups are discussed. (HPH)

[en] First results of the influence of electron and gamma irradiations on the properties of fiber-boards without binder are presented. Low radiation doses cause an activation of the bonding mechanism, and at high doses a loss of bonding strength takes place. Thickness swell and water absorption of fiber-boards decrease with increasing radiation doses. (author)

[en] This annex to the PSI Annual Report 1996 reports on the progress achieved by the PSI Department II during 1996 in the fields of radiation medicine, radiopharmacy, radiation hygiene, positron emission tomography and medical radiobiology. figs., tab., refs

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