The Energy Studies Institute (ESI) and the Centre for International Law (CIL) have secured a research grant from Singapore’s National Research Foundation to do research in the area of nuclear law and policy as part of the Singapore Government’s Nuclear Policy Research Programme. As its inaugural outreach event, ESI and CIL jointly held a seminar on ‘The Governance of Nuclear Energy: Perspectives for Non-nuclear Countries’. Marc-Gérard Albert, Director for International Affairs of the French Institute of Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (IRSN), spoke on two topics: (i) the soft power of international insight in and leverage on national nuclear programmes; and (ii) managing nuclear accidents and dealing with radioactive contamination. The seminar was chaired by Dr Philip Andrews-Speed, Principal Fellow at ESI. The seminar was attended by close to 30 participants from academia, government, law firms and industry and was held at ESI on NUS Kent Ridge Campus on 6 April 2016.
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