CIL Head of Nuclear Law and Policy, Denise Cheong, provides an overview of how and why nuclear law and policy became a new focus area at CIL and introduces “Nuclear Matters at CIL”
Senior Research Fellow Ms Denise Cheong and Research Associate S Nivedita participated in the 9th meeting of the Nuclear Energy Experts Group held from 6 to 7 February 2020 in Singapore. This meeting was organised by the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) together with the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies …
The CIL nuclear law and policy team was invited to present at the Workshop on Strategic Environmental Assessments for Nuclear Power Programmes organised by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The workshop brought together representatives from 15 member states and was held in Vienna, Austria from 3 to 6 December. Senior Research Fellow Denise Cheong …
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Research Associate Nivedita S participated in the International Workshop on the Applicability of the Espoo Convention to the Lifetime Extension of Nuclear Power Plants on 2 December 2019. Held in Vienna, Austria, the workshop was organised by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) working group of Parties to the Espoo Convention to draft …
Senior Research Fellow Denise Cheong and Research Associate Nivedita S participated in the Eighth Working Group Meeting on Environmental Impact Assessment and Strategic Environmental Assessment, held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 26–28 November 2019. Organised by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), the meeting brought together representatives from state parties to the UNECE Convention …
The ESI-CIL Nuclear Governance Project organised a two-day workshop titled ‘Regional Cooperation to Enhance Transboundary Consultation on Nuclear Power Development in Southeast Asia’, which was held on 8 and 9 May in Singapore. The main objective of the workshop was to discuss what ASEAN Member States could and/or should do to promote transboundary consultation on …
The CIL Nuclear Law and Policy team organised a closed-door breakfast seminar by Ms Helen Cook on ‘Lessons Learnt from the Olkiluoto 3 (Finland) and VC Summer (USA) Nuclear Projects’, which was held on 15 November 2019 at CIL. Ms Cook offered insights into the many ways a project can fail and the lessons that …
Senior Research Fellow Denise Cheong participated in a faculty professional development course on nuclear security education held at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. This course was jointly organised by the International Atomic Energy Agency and the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. The aim of the week-long course was to build capacity in the …
The authors discuss the prospects of nuclear power and the state of nuclear governance in the region.
Senior Research Fellow Denise Cheong and Research Associate Nivedita S participated in the Fourth International Workshop on the Indemnification of Damage in the Event of a Nuclear Accident on 8–10 October 2019, held in Lisbon, Portugal. Organised by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD/NEA), the Institute Superior Técnico (IST), and the Faculty of Law of …
