Study of Compensation for Nuclear Pollution Damage: A Reflection of the Development of China's Nuclear Power and Related Research

In 2007, NDRC (National Development and Reform Commission) issued A Long-term Plan of Nuclear Power Development (2005-2020), which indicates that China's nuclear power industry has entered a higher stage of development. In order to improve the safety and security of nuclear power to meet the system requirements, speeding up the construction of related laws and regulations is legitimately put on the agenda. This paper will analyze a downstream problem of the future nuclear law system - compensation for nuclear pollution damage. In recent years, many scholars have made extensive explanations on this subject, but there are many drawbacks. This paper will focus on the issues that existing studies have not paid sufficient attention or have been incorrectly addressed. This paper aims at achieving two purposes: First, through analysing the cause and principles of nuclear pollution damage, I try to conclude some conclusions in line with the reality of China; Second, based on the analysis, I also try to explore a study of the methodology. Therefore, this is not only a study of the system itself, but also a study of research methods in system research. This paper is organized as follows: First, I will make a concise but detailed introduction of the development of nuclear power about the world in general and China; Next, as the Part I of the comparison study, I will combine the U.S. and Europe to discuss the situation of the nuclear pollution damage; And then, I will mainly integrate with the international conventions and the legal requirements for nuclear pollution damage in China and Taiwan to describe the relevant principles, which is the Part II of comparative study; After that, I will return to China's context to analyse the existing research of nuclear pollution damage and similar research model of critical conclusions, and make realistic conclusions combined with the aforementioned analysis; Finally, I will make some explanations on the the matters which easily lead to misunderstanding in the process of this research.