17th of June - Anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on Nuclear Safety
The Convention on Nuclear
Safety was adopted in Vienna on 17 June 1994. Its aim is to legally
commit participating States operating land-based nuclear power plants to
maintain a high level of safety by setting international benchmarks to
which States would subscribe.
The Convention is an incentive instrument. It is not designed to ensure fulfillment of obligations by Parties through control and sanction but is based on their common interest to achieve higher levels of safety which will be developed and promoted through regular meetings of the Parties.
Read more about the CNS here: http://www-ns.iaea.org/conventions/nuclear-safety.asp
Full text of the CNS: http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Infcircs/Others/inf449.shtml
The Convention is an incentive instrument. It is not designed to ensure fulfillment of obligations by Parties through control and sanction but is based on their common interest to achieve higher levels of safety which will be developed and promoted through regular meetings of the Parties.
Read more about the CNS here: http://www-ns.iaea.org/conventions/nuclear-safety.asp
Full text of the CNS: http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Infcircs/Others/inf449.shtml
Nuclear Safety & Security www-ns.iaea.org
The Convention on Nuclear
Safety was adopted in Vienna on 17 June 1994. The Convention was drawn
up during a series of expert level meetings from 1992 to 1994 and was
the result of considerable work by Governments, national...
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