Order number page 9 940330-160606-96 -001-001 set 11 with 111 of 111 items TITLE ENGLISH SUBTITLE ENGLISH ANALYTIC AUTHOR/AFFIL CORPORATE TEXT PAGE RANGE PUB. DATE (YYMMDD) LIMITATION CODE ABSTRACT Nuclear Inter Jura ’91: for the future nuclear law and nublear energy Proceedings of the biennial congress of the International Nuclear Law Association England, Briscoe, 23-26 September 1991 W. (AIDN-INLA), International Nuclear Law Association, Kingdom). 367-386 920000 Harwell British Administrative Committee Bath, (United UNL The Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal was established in 1988 pursuant to legislation enacted by the Republic of the Marshall Islands as part of its obligations under the Compact of Free Association between it and the United States (ratified 1986) and an associated Compact implementation agreement. The Tribunal is generally considered to be the last hope for compensation for a large number of Marshallese who claim to have suffered injury or damage as a result of the United States Nuclear Testing Programme in the Marshall Islands, 1946 - 1958. Under the Compact, the United States admitted liability for injuries and damages suffered by Marshallese as a result of the Testing Programme and made provision for the payment of compensation. In return, the Republic agreed to espouse, on behalf of it and its citizens, all current and future claims for compensation against the United States. The Tribunal has been given a most challenging and unique assignment: - to identify and compensate the victims of the Testing Programme, with a potentially limited sum of money, an indefinite number of victims, and with cultural, environmental and political circumstances which are not altogether conducive to Western concepts associated with compensating people for damages and personal injuries suffered as a result of a wrongful act. The paper will describe the Tribunal’s role in compensating the victims of the Testing Programme. It will highlight a number of legal, social and cultural difficulties in establishing and operating a scheme to compensate people for damages and injuries suffered or commenced up to forty years previously. (author). HARDTACK PROJECT/victims compensation ;HUMAN KEYWORDS POPULATIONS/delayed radiation effects ;HUMAN POPULATIONS/marshall islands ;REDWING PROJECT/victims compensation ;LEGISLATION; LOCAL FALLOUT; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR INSURANCE; NUCLEAR LIABILITY; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; USA 5003u43