India’s Nuclear Energy Sector: Business Opportunities and Legal Challenges
2 March 2013 The Leela, Mumbai (As on 6 Feb 2013)
Time Topic Speaker Partners
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8:00 -9:00 AM: Registration/Coffee
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Principal Partner

Publication Partner

Journal of Risk Research (Taylor & Francis)
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9:00 - 10:30 Inaugural Session
Welcome address:
M P Ram Mohan, Chair, Nuclear Law Association & Fellow, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Presidential address:
Ravi
Kadam, Former Advocate General, Maharashtra & Senior Counsel, Bombay High Court Special address:
Siddharth Varadarajan, Editor, The Hindu
Inaugural address:
R B Grover, Homi Bhabha Chair Professor, Director - Homi Bhabha National Institute & Former Principal Adviser, Department of Atomic Energy
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10:30
- 11:00 Coffee break
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11:00 – 12:30
Panel
Session 1: Nuclear energy projects & private sector participation
- International
collaborative projects
- Private sector
participation: opportunities & hurdles
- Technology transfer & IPR
- Export-import control
& dual-use technology
Chair:
Bahram N Vakil, Founding Partner, AZB & Partners
Speakers:
Rajendra Shrivastava, Director India, Nuclear Business, Alstom India
Limited
Badrinath Durvasula, Vice President & Head Legal, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Vyoma Jha, Associate Fellow, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law Amey Pathak, Partner,Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co
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12:
15 – 12:30
Q & A
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12:30 – 1: 30 Lunch
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1:30
– 3:00
Panel
Session 2: Regulatory and Stakeholder engagement in nuclear energy projects
- Regulatory and licensing
requirements
- Tools for public
acceptance: lessons from other countries
- Transparency in
decision-making, public debate & hearings: a different approach post-KK?
- Acceptability of nuclear
energy: socio-economic factors
Chair: Justice Abhay Mahadeo Thipsay, Judge, Bombay High Court
Keynote: S.S. Bajaj,
Chairman, Atomic Energy Regulatory
Board Speakers Shah Nawaz Ahmad, Senior Advisor India,
World Nuclear Association
Mohit Abraham, Advocate on Record, Supreme Court of India Anupam Jha, Senior Lecturer, Department of Law, Delhi University
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2:30
– 2:40Q & A
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2:40 – 3:00Tea Break
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3:00 – 4:30
Panel
Session 3: Nuclear Liability and Insurance: impact on commercial viability
- Operator’s and
suppliers liability law
- Nuclear insurance
approaches
- International nuclear
liability law (post-Fukushima) - International investment treaties and liability law
Speakers:
Pierre Charreton, General Counsel, AREVA
Y. Ramulu, DGM (nuclear insurance), General Insurance Corporation of India
S K Dhiman, Head, Corporate Legal Group, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL)
Jitendra Kumar, Legal Adviser, Department of Atomic Energy & IAEA- INLEX member
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4:15
– 4:30: Concluding session: Els Reynaers Kini, Partner, M V Kini & Co and Secretary, Nuclear Law Association
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