INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY OF STATES FOR PREVENTION OF HARMS ARISING OUT OF PEACEFUL NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES

While international law has provided customary and contractual obligations for states concerning prevention of harms arising out of peaceful nuclear activities, the non comprehensiveness of these obligations and softness of their nature has, in practice, made impediments for efficient and sufficient prevention of these harms. Such non Comprehensiveness and softness may put limitation and difficulty in the way of raising international responsibility of the states whose peaceful nuclear activities caused transboundary harms. The perspective of nuclear Technology in the world which reflect increasing tendency of states to use its different applications, particularly in the field of nuclear energy, necessitate fast removal of legal lacunae and flaws concerning prevention of harms arising out of peaceful nuclear activities.