Well I decided to revive this proposal to close off the loophole made by the Nuclear Testing Protocol, that a nuclear test can be called a peaceful use and you can get away with any environmental damage caused by it.
Draft V, modified clauses 2 and 4.
Peaceful Nuclear Explosives Act
Category: Environmental
Area of Effect: All Businesses
Proposed by: Atomic Utopia
RECOGNIZING the tremendous utility of peaceful nuclear explosives in earth-moving, space travel, and isotope production;
CONCERNED by the tremendous potential for misuse and destruction these devices present;
AIMS to regulate the use of Peaceful Nuclear Explosives to ensure the health and safety of the general population;
DEFINES Peaceful Nuclear Explosive (PNE) as any explosive device that derives the majority of it's energy from nuclear forces and is designed for peaceful use;
DEFINES Peaceful Use as any individual or group detonation with the aim of earth-moving, resource processing, isotope production, or other such non weapons testing or deployment purposes;
DEFINES fallout as any radioactive material produced by the detonation of a PNE that is released into the environment;
DEFINES negligible dose as any dose of radiation below that sufficient to cause a 0.01% increase in the risk of radiogenic cancer;
MANDATES that all GA members, hereinafter refereed to as "parties" shall comply with the following:
1. Parties shall refrain from detonating any PNE devices when;
a. the predicted dosage from both prompt and fallout sources exceeds the limits defined in section two;
b. the place of detonation lies outside of that country's borders and lies below 150 km in altitude as measured from sea level;
c. the detonation would endanger the populations or infrastructure of other nations;
d. the detonation causes excessive environmental damage as defined in section three;
e. and/or the detonation would be located below 150 kilometers in altitude in a protected site as designated by WA law.
2. Parties shall not allow the average lifetime radiation exposure of the general population to exceed;
a. a dosage sufficient to increase the radiogenic cancer risk 2% in any portion of the detonating country's population;
b. a dosage resulting in any more than a negligible increase in cancer in other countries unless said countries allow dose limits to be increased in a written contract;
c. and/or cause radiation sickness or any other similar illnesses in any population.
3. Fallout from detonations shall not;
a. result in radiation exposure exceeding limits as defined in section 2;
b. and/or contaminate property owned by the general population sufficiently to reduce productivity or damage said property.
4. All PNE devices created or owned by parties are to have a chance of unwanted detonations less than or equal to one incident every 10^6 years per device from the frame of reference of said device.
5. All PNE devices that fail to meet the specified requirements in section 4 shall be dismantled or modified to meet specifications.
6. In the event that the general population or property owned by the general population is exposed to conditions exceeding the regulations set fourth in this document the person(s) affected by the incident are entitled to compensation equal to the cost of the damages in lost productivity, property, medical expenses, ect.
Please, criticize it and tell me what could be improved. Right now I am attempting to determine what would be a good category and finding any legality issues that may be present or crop up in the future.